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Safe Returns - February 15, 2007
"Proclaim the Message with intensity; keep on your watch. Challenge, warn, and urge your people. Don't ever quit. Just keep it simple."
2 Tim 4:1 (Msg)
I recently was driving home and came across a wonderful thing. As I was turning toward my house I saw at least 8 police cars with their lights on blocking traffic and escorting the buses full of soldiers returning from Iraq and proclaiming for all to see that they had returned safely. Now living in a military town this should not be to unusual, but it got me thinking about how happy God is when we return home, when we turn our hearts towards him.
The definition of "proclaim" is to indicate or make known publicly or openly. God loves to proclaim to his angels, and to the heavens that you and I have turned our hearts toward God. If we are believers in Christ we all know what it is like to feel the pleasure of God. When we first believed, when we step out in faith and do something He desires, when we align ourselves and obey Christ he gets to proclaim that his precious child did something that pleased him.
What have you done today to cause God to proclaim your name across the heavens? It does not have to be grandiose and boisterous. God actually takes pleasure in seeing us doing things right... big or small. God does not care if it is big in the eyes of man, it is all big in the eyes of God.
Every time you do something in your heart that you know is right and pleasing in the sight of God, imagine God looking down on you and smiling and saying "this is my precious child in whom is all my delight." If we can all get that visual in our heads, none of us would have a proclivity to disobey God our Father. Instead we would be coming to God and asking how we can serve him more.
Carl Holmes is a freelance writer and seminary student living in Colorado Springs, CO. He currently writes on the blog site Thoughts of a Gyrovague and he can be reached at [email protected]
"Proclaim the Message with intensity; keep on your watch. Challenge, warn, and urge your people. Don't ever quit. Just keep it simple."
2 Tim 4:1 (Msg)
I recently was driving home and came across a wonderful thing. As I was turning toward my house I saw at least 8 police cars with their lights on blocking traffic and escorting the buses full of soldiers returning from Iraq and proclaiming for all to see that they had returned safely. Now living in a military town this should not be to unusual, but it got me thinking about how happy God is when we return home, when we turn our hearts towards him.
The definition of "proclaim" is to indicate or make known publicly or openly. God loves to proclaim to his angels, and to the heavens that you and I have turned our hearts toward God. If we are believers in Christ we all know what it is like to feel the pleasure of God. When we first believed, when we step out in faith and do something He desires, when we align ourselves and obey Christ he gets to proclaim that his precious child did something that pleased him.
What have you done today to cause God to proclaim your name across the heavens? It does not have to be grandiose and boisterous. God actually takes pleasure in seeing us doing things right... big or small. God does not care if it is big in the eyes of man, it is all big in the eyes of God.
Every time you do something in your heart that you know is right and pleasing in the sight of God, imagine God looking down on you and smiling and saying "this is my precious child in whom is all my delight." If we can all get that visual in our heads, none of us would have a proclivity to disobey God our Father. Instead we would be coming to God and asking how we can serve him more.
Carl Holmes is a freelance writer and seminary student living in Colorado Springs, CO. He currently writes on the blog site Thoughts of a Gyrovague and he can be reached at [email protected]
