Ash Wednesday

Hi!  This morning I went to our church's Coffee Break...and Margo Fiesler (a lady who used to be one of the DJ's on a Christian radio station here) was the speaker.  It was too good not to share some of the things that she was talking about.  I didn't have a piece of paper or a pen but these are some of the things that she mentioned that stood out to me so I wanted to share them with you.  

She talked about not losing your First Love (being Jesus) ...and about moving my relationship with Jesus from a personal relationship (that comes and goes)...to a PASSIONATE relationship....  She asked "Can you remember a time in your life when you were more in love with Jesus than you are right now?"  She said "If you said yes, then you are moving in the wrong direction." Gulp.  Um yes.  There are definite ups and downs in my walk with Jesus  - times where I feel so close to Him...and times where I don't even think about Him!   I usually like to get up early for quiet times with God but sometimes, that doesn't always work when the girls are sick or when I get sick...or when the girls just feel like waking up TOO early!  So then I just get distracted and fall further from God...and yet I know that He is always waiting for me...and that I just need to ask Him to give me the desire to want Him more again.  Margo talked about John 21...and how Jesus asked Simon Peter "Do you love me?  Do you really love me?"  And how he had to ask him 3 times.  It's so easy to just say "Yes Jesus, we love you!"  But do we REALLY mean it.  Are we IN LOVE with Him?  Such good stuff!  She talked about her super hard struggles that she's had to go through in her life...and how her mom kept praying for her all throughout her life...and the prayer that she prayed was "Do not give Margo peace....until she finds peace in You."  And oh how that prayer was answered!

Some other little tidbits

"Reading the Bible will keep me from sin....or sin will keep me from reading the Bible."  "A dusty Bible leads to dirty lives."   

"If you are living in the world, you will be conformed by it.  If you are living in the Word, you will be conformed to it."  

"Today, may I do something that only a Christian would do." - Corrie Ten Boom   - convicting!

Today is Ash Wednesday...the beginning of the Lent season until Easter.  I know this time of year many people give things up...things that go in their mouths...things like chocolate or caffeine or sugar or whatever.  This Lent season, I'm not going to give things up.  Instead, I want to focus more on putting the Word of God IN my heart.  So that the Word of God will flow from my mouth...(Matthew 12:34 - for out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks).  

I wish that you all could have heard her talk as God was definitely speaking through her to me today...

Saying a prayer for all who read this today!...

In His amazing Love,

Shelly :)