A couple birthdays ago a friend gave me a set of these hand towels and they are wonderful reminders of how blessed we all are. Just the word blessed prompts me to stop and remember what it means to be a child of God.
A deer came right onto our patio and ate to tops off a whole tray of succulents I had waiting to be planted! Instead of tossing the tray I brought it up onto our deck and little sprouts are returning, reminding me of how God brings back life in areas we think are totally dead.
We can hold a newborn baby and watch them grin in their sleep realizing God might just be whispering to them at even such a young age.
The reminders that God is good, omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient are all around. We just have to take the time to look and remember.
Our church is currently in a study of the Book of Joshua and after the Israelites crossed the Jordan River God had the leaders build a monumnet in the river bed out of 12 large rocks as a reminder of where He had taken them.
Joshua chose twelve men; then he called them together and said: Go to the middle of the riverbed where the sacred chest is, and pick up a large rock. Carry it on your shoulder to our camp. There are twelve of you, so there will be one rock for each tribe. Someday your children will ask, “Why are these rocks here?” Then you can tell them how the water stopped flowing when the chest was being carried across the river. These rocks will always remind our people of what happened here today.
The men followed the instructions that the Lord had given Joshua. They picked up twelve rocks, one for each tribe, and carried them to the camp, where they put them down.Joshua set up a monument next to the place where the priests were standing. This monument was also made of twelve large rocks, and it is still there in the middle of the river.
Take time today to remember who God is and what He has done and will do.
The Song
