Take some time and make an effort to be friendly today! Smile and make people think that you are up to something! Say hello and wake people up! You will cross paths with many different people today – make sure that you do more than cross paths! Make a connection! With your smile and hello you may just remind them that there is a God of LOVE and that He cares for all of us!
If each one of us would do just our little bit, it would be amazing what could be accomplished for the Kingdom! Look at me – I am smiling at you! Smile back! Now doesn’t that make you feel better! Have a blessed day!
I am currently in the process of re-reading a book by Craig Groeschel, pastor of www.lifechurch.tv. In this book he makes the following statement: “Maybe you’ve heard the old adage, “Where God guides, ha always provides.” We’ve made up a new saying: “God often guides by what he doesn’t provide.”
So many times in life we catch ourselves thinking “if I just had this or that, then I could do something with my life!” We think that there is something else that we need to complete the calling that God has given us. The fact is: God has aready given us what we need! The problem is: We fail to see it!
A need is an invitation to stop, look around and take in all that God has already blessed you with! A need allows you to look with a different set of eyes and see things that ordinarily you would overlook! So don’t get caught up and stuck in what you don’t have, instead take some time to appreciate what you do have and then get busy doing something with it for God and His glory!
Have you been outside this morning? It is an absolutely amazing and beautiful day here in the upstate! The sun is shining an comforting warmness! The breeze is blowing a gentle coolness! The birds are singing and if you open you eyes and look around, you will notice that everything is beginning to come back to life! I love this time of year, because you see Resurrection all around you!
Go outside today and enjoy some of the Resurrection reminders that God has placed all around you! And don’t forget to set you clock forward tonight. We are going to have a great day at church tomorrow and I can almost guarantee that there will be no snow this Sunday! So the only thing to keep you from being here is the devil and I know that you want let Him win!
Michael Joe Harvell 