As I was getting my kids ready for preschool, I quickly got on Facebook and scrolled through some posts on the news feed. I came across one posted from a sister in my church that said, "Don't forget to pray today, because God didn't forget to wake you up this morning." How true are these words? I've never really giving much thought to most of the mundane things I do on a daily basis. I just do them, as I am sure a majority of people do as well. I go to bed at night. I wake up in the morning. I brush my teeth. I make breakfast. The list goes on and on and for most of us, they are similar tasks, the basics of living. I never thought too hard about it in the sense that God is the one allowing me to do these things. He is the one allowing me to go to sleep and rest my mind. He is the one waking me up to another day in this life He has allowed me to live. I brush my teeth because he has given me another day with the use of my hands to take care of this body He has given me to use. Everything I have in this life, is His.
Reflecting on this reminded me of a blog post I read awhile back where the writer expressed how blessed she was that the Lord allowed her to borrow His children as her own. Most of us, myself included, live our lives like those in the world live their lives, in the sense that we don't always fully recognize that everything in our life is the Lords. Our house is His house and He allows us to live there. Our car is His, and He allows us to use it to get from place to place. Our children are not our own, but children of God, children He has allowed us to raise in the hopes that we will raise them to be servants unto Him.
It's funny how man thinks these things are his. The house they buy, the car they drive, the clothes and food they shop for, all of it is theirs. They earned it by working. How silly and wrong we are when we think the things we have in this life are because of us. None of it is ours. We didn't earn it. We certainly don't own it. Everything we have can be taking from us in a split second. Everything we own is the Lords, and he is the one who decides what we can have and what we can't have.
If you're a parent, then you are all too familiar with the constant whining and nagging that ensues when children want something. Buy them one Barbie, they complain for a different one. Parents often tell their children to stop acting spoiled, that they cant have everything they want. Isn't this the same with God? When he provides us with a home but we complain that it's too small, or too old? When we complain that the vehicle we drive is old, or needs repairs. Isn't that sending the same message to Him? That what he has provided for us is somehow not good enough? How can we teach our children these things when we are doing the same thing?
As a parent we all have desires for our children to achieve greatness. We want them to succeed in life, and to have every opportunity that they may want to pursue, open to them. However, our greatest wish and desire for them should be that they have a relationship with God. As long as they learn to rely on Him fully, as well as to serve Him and honor Him, they will go far in life.
"When you know Him, when you know Him, you'll love Him just as others do" - When You Know Jesus, Too
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