Daily Reading: 7-1-16
Psalm 66:1-12The Message (MSG)
Today, John and I are celebrating our 38th wedding anniversary. God brought us together and He has truly blessed our years of becoming One with Him and one another. We started our marriage in a posture of worship (connected and submitted to Christ) and we continue to bow our imperfect yet grateful lives before our spotless Maker. God caused our love to create two amazing sons who have recently bowed in worship with their wives to become One. God loves His family and our family is God’s greatest gift to us; we treasure every day we can share with them.
Life is a journey to be lived and enjoyed for the glory of God and the work of His Son, Jesus, and His kingdom. If we are willing to give our lives to Him and surrender to the work of the Holy Spirit to refine the soul, we can know great joy and blessing. God gives us what the world cannot. Honesty, John and I never enjoyed the training portion of God’s work in the soul because it was painful; sometimes God pushed us to the very limit. But, now when we look back over our lives we can see that Father really does know best. He has walked with us in dry times of testing—never left us alone—and He has quenched our souls with His refreshing Spirit when we have opened our hearts to receive. For the record, John and I are still working on becoming One, because we are two very different people (somebody laugh here!). Yet, we have lived our married lives knowing we both need the Savior, Jesus. Connecting to Christ has brought us this far. What an awesome God we serve; He truly does take our breath away!