Do you like icing? I do! I actually love icing. To me I would rather eat a pretzel dipped in butter cream icing than eat a candy bar. Now please don't misunderstand, I am not a sugar addict. But if I am going to eat something sweet, I want what I want, not what somebody else wants.
Anyway that is enough of that rabbit trail....when you eat a piece of cake....do you like a piece of cake with a lot of icing or a little icing? I like icing...okay that is established....however to much of anything is to much! Do you remember the saying of not spreading yourself to thin. (Like the icing on a cake) I am sure if you are a parent you have already told your children not to spread yourself to thin...in other words...limit what you commit to. It is important to ask the Lord to help you decide what it is that you are committing to. It is important to ask the Lord to help you with every decisions you make ....our Lord wants us to be his sweet savour....in other words..when we live our lives according Gods will for us, (first you must discern prayerfully, what is Gods will for you)...there will be times of sacrificial living, in other words, when you are doing something for someone else, that you may not particularly want to be doing, but you are doing it anyway, because you can see plainly that it needs to be done....this is a sacrificial act on your part. God of course would be happier with you if you did what ever this thing is with a happy and pleasing spirit.
We need to everything as if we are doing it for God. When you cut the grass, don't think of it as your grass or your neighbors grass, think of it as God's grass...do whatever you do as if you are doing it for God. And oh I missed a spot..oh well no one will notice...oh yes they will...remember if you are doing everything as unto God, then do it that way.
Remember God is everywhere and in everything and sees and smells and knows everything...and yes I know this is huge.....and a little tough to wrap our minuscule brains around, but you can do this.....
I want to be a sweet savour to God, don't you? I know that this little machine doesn't recognize this word, savour, because it keeps getting a red line under it. Oh well, this is in the King James Version of the Bible and that is good enough for me.
Alright I need to back up a bit...if we are going to do everything as unto God, then we have to limit ourselves just a bit. If we put to much on our plates we will not do everything to the best of our abilities, it will not be possible, because we are not omnipotent! So limit yourselves if you must. Pray about what needs to go or needs to be condensed...and what can stay....
Ephesians 5:2
Anyway that is enough of that rabbit trail....when you eat a piece of cake....do you like a piece of cake with a lot of icing or a little icing? I like icing...okay that is established....however to much of anything is to much! Do you remember the saying of not spreading yourself to thin. (Like the icing on a cake) I am sure if you are a parent you have already told your children not to spread yourself to thin...in other words...limit what you commit to. It is important to ask the Lord to help you decide what it is that you are committing to. It is important to ask the Lord to help you with every decisions you make ....our Lord wants us to be his sweet savour....in other words..when we live our lives according Gods will for us, (first you must discern prayerfully, what is Gods will for you)...there will be times of sacrificial living, in other words, when you are doing something for someone else, that you may not particularly want to be doing, but you are doing it anyway, because you can see plainly that it needs to be done....this is a sacrificial act on your part. God of course would be happier with you if you did what ever this thing is with a happy and pleasing spirit.
We need to everything as if we are doing it for God. When you cut the grass, don't think of it as your grass or your neighbors grass, think of it as God's grass...do whatever you do as if you are doing it for God. And oh I missed a spot..oh well no one will notice...oh yes they will...remember if you are doing everything as unto God, then do it that way.
Remember God is everywhere and in everything and sees and smells and knows everything...and yes I know this is huge.....and a little tough to wrap our minuscule brains around, but you can do this.....
I want to be a sweet savour to God, don't you? I know that this little machine doesn't recognize this word, savour, because it keeps getting a red line under it. Oh well, this is in the King James Version of the Bible and that is good enough for me.
Alright I need to back up a bit...if we are going to do everything as unto God, then we have to limit ourselves just a bit. If we put to much on our plates we will not do everything to the best of our abilities, it will not be possible, because we are not omnipotent! So limit yourselves if you must. Pray about what needs to go or needs to be condensed...and what can stay....
Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Be that sweet smelling savour for God, do all things as if you are doing them for God and God alone!
Now in order to get the things accomplished that I need to accomplish I must continue onto my next task....pictures. I need to get some pictures of a lovely young lady finished up....so go and be a blessing to someone today, and as you are being that blessing, just consider that your are actually blessing God!
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