I was busy busy yesterday {hence no blog post!} Yesterday, I was so grateful to just relax. Relaxation is definitely rare at this point in my life so it's a luxury to just be. Aaron had a cute date set up when I got to his house: working on wedding crafts, dinner at Crab Cooker, walking around Fashion Island and ending the night with a couple of episodes of Law & Order SVU (if you ask Aaron, he'd say I'm obsessed!) I felt so happy yesterday, just being right where I should. And for that, I am grateful.
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Today, I am grateful for the church I attend. I am grateful for a pastor who seeks truth, for a congregation that deeply cares about one another and for a community where the ultimate goal is to reach the lost. Today, I started a new devotion from Sarah Young called
Take My Heart, Oh God. I read about Lottie Moon, missionary to China in the late nineteenth century. In her commentary, Young said the following:
How important it is for us to not hoard our salvation and sit on it happy as a clam, but to use our salvation, to work it out with fear and trembling, to bring the lost world to Christ.
Going into church with this on my heart, we talked about Orphan Sunday. Orphan Sunday is a day for the church body to come together with one purpose and one voice advocating for care for the orphans, adoption and foster care. We heard from a precious family who has put this commandment into practice. Knowing that God takes us in, as orphans, to clothe us, love us, restore us until we're healed...that is what we are called to as Christians. WE are called to care for the orphans; WE are called to love them; WE are called to aid in the restoring.
Watch
this video. It will enlighten you to the plight of the orphan, fatherless and widow. I am grateful that I have been adopted as a child of God.
hi Skyler, it's been fun reading your gratitude posts so thank you for sharing your thankfulness. We have so much to be grateful for beginning simply with our merciful adoption in Christ! Great admonishment to work it out.
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