Thank you so very much for your incredibly generous responses. We are very moved by them, and appreciate them greatly!

The Lord has been showing me the enormity of His grace. While that should not surprise me, for some reason it does.

I listen to sermons on my i-Pod while I run. Between those and one a friend recently gave me on dvd, I have seen in new light, how very small I am. How very little my life is compared to all that God has done. Not just people, but all of His creation.

That we as people spend so much time trying to convince ourselves and others of our value, just doesn't make any sense. In the big picture, I should just be seeking to glorify God. I should be doing all I can to point others to Him. I need to go to greater lengths to show Christ to those I encounter.

There are so many lost people out there. Not one of us is capable of doing much about that by ourselves. Our cities are filled with millions of people, and only small fractions get it. When you travel down the road and see the sheer numbers of them, it is so obvious that without an all-knowing, all-powerful and all-present God, the task of winning them to Christ could not be accomplished.

Yet His word tells us to look at the sparrow. I have not been to any part of the world that does not have sparrows. They are everywhere! There are so many of them, and most consider them a nuisance, yet God knows each one, and wants us to stop and consider them.

I don't know the ratio of sparrows to people on this planet, but I know God knows and had His hand in creating each and every one. He knows them all by name. He knows you and me by name. Names are so important to Him, that He renames many that He calls into service.

I know my parents love me and gave me a name. They have called me by it for my whole life. Sometimes it has other words attached to it, (if I have been out of line) but I still recognize their voice when they called it out. Yeah, I not only have a name, but I recognize the voices of those who love me when I hear them.

If the God of the universe has taken the time to be present for me, to name me, to surround me with others who love me, and to show me the calling He has for me, who am I that I have the nerve to get so busy, that I try to accomplish other things? Self serving things that don't bring Him glory!

Even then, He offers me His Amazing Grace! I am truly humbled at His breadth, and vastness.
I do not deserve all He has provided. Yet He keeps on giving to me. His love is astounding!

How and why do we sit on this kind of information? This kind of relationship will bring life to the lifeless! Hope to the hopeless! A Father to the fatherless! Love to the unlovable!

It is a sin not to share what we have in Christ! We must mobilize...today!

dad


I am on my way to Mexico! Yay!