IT IS FINISHED!

Since I work for five managers, they sometimes all have something they wish to accomplish at the same time. It does not happen very often, but this week, they all needed my help on a project. I would get one project and another would come before I could even start or was halfway finished. I generally do not have to prioritize, but this week I definitely had to. Needless to say, I had many little things not quite finished by Friday. This is so frustrating as it is just another thirty minutes to completion, but when you have ten projects, that can equal 5 hours of work, which is all the time I have for projects in my day. So, on Friday, with nothing new coming my way, I was able to finish almost all those little nagging things that had been piling up! It was wonderful! I felt like I had accomplished so very much. Jesus did that when He was on the cross – He said it was finished! All we try to accomplish in the flesh has already been completed for us. All those nagging little things with which the enemy tries to trip us up. You know, like you are not good enough, you are never going to be perfect, you cannot ever measure up. Those things – Jesus said it was FINISHHED! He paid the price so that we could live free in Him. He measured up, He was good enough, He was perfect, and He was good enough. HE did it for us and then said it is finished – So take a breath and know that you are loved.

The Power of Water!

This week’s Geography lessons have taken us to the glaciers in Greenland and the reason why they are melting. During the summer there are still miles of ice, however there are streams of water running through the ice trying to reach the ocean. The water cascades down 300 feet of ice cliffs into nothingness and the scientist are trying to determine exactly where the water goes. They have discovered the water is flowing under the ice and into the ocean. What the Holy Spirit showed me is as the people’s hearts are touched by His love; they will start to flow toward the Father. We must always try to be a help and not a hindrance to others finding the Love of Jesus and encourage them to be part of the kingdom of God. You see as the water flows into the ocean it is very cold, and it mixes with the warm ocean water and in turn, this water causes additional melting of the glacier. As people are turned to the love of God, they will in turn help others find the Love of God.

Delight yourself in the Lord!

Every day I receive a daily devotion and this week the subject has been about delight. This is the devotion: God has many delights: The delight that comes from a pure and simple act of love. Greater than that, the delight that comes from an act of beauty sparkling in the darkness. Greater than that, the delight when a child who has run away returns with all her heart. Delight is that from which all things come. Isn’t this so beautiful. You see the writer is stating all the things that bring delight to the Father. He receives delight from all that we do with a pure heart, when we perform an act of love in the darkness of the world, and when we return home to the Father. But the last line is tricky – you see all things come from the Father, so even those things that we do out of our pure heart, or causing an act of beauty, or even when we turn to the Father, really are from Him. All delight, all things wonderful, all things beautiful – come from Him. God receives delight when we do things, and yet all that we do that is good is from Him. God is so good; He gives us the tools to do so many blessings all around. Look for them!