My Temple

I've gone into this year really concentrating on the fact that my body is the temple for the Holy Spirit. I have been eating better and going to the gym 3 times a week and also doing some strength training. I have decided that I also want to set a good example for my daughter. She is 10 years old and just beginning to watch what others look like and say things that could lead to unhealthy habits as she grows up. Especially if she follows my lead from the past, overweight. We talk about healthy things and how God wants our body to be His Temple, so that He is able to communicate with us without all the access

God's YES!!!

Getting ready for my daughter's 10th birthday, I spent a lot of time going over her life. I thought about things that she used to do, what she looked like as an infant and toddler, and when she entered kindergarten. I just couldn't believe that much time has gone by, 10 years. Then I began to think about if I had had my way and the Lord had worked with us, our child could be 17 years old by now. So really all things considered, 10 years wasn't so bad, she keeps me young. Also, during the week leading up to my daughter's birthday, I was studying Psalms 127 and 128, about how families are blessings from God. And I'm so blessed by my family, the family I was born into and then the family that I choose, like my church and friends. I have been able to count on family more times that I can count. They are always encouraging and give good advice, as well as, gentle rebuking.

While studing God's word, the translation of Psalms 128:4 from the Message goes; "Stand in awe of God's Yes. Oh, how he blesses the one that fears the God!" I was completly in awe of that verse. I hit me so hard. Do I stand in awe of his blessings? Do I even acknowledge all his blessings? I need to be standing in awe of them daily. What is standing in awe? I have always been told or read to give thanks for our blessings but this says so much more. Stand in awe. Marvel at. Get swept up in. Give reverence to. I think these say so much more.

I stand in awe of the love that I feel for my daughter. I never thought I could love something so much and to think that God even loves her more than that. I stand in awe of the overwhelming responsibility in raising a child to be God-fearing and desire to have a relationship with her Father. I stand in awe of her beauty that is so deeply rooted within her it can't help but burst through to the outside.

I don't stand in awe of her but of God that would give me these things to feel.

My family is a yes from God. The beautiful day that we had today is a big yes from God. Even the fact that my upper body hurts so bad today from strength training yesterday is a yes from God, I'm working very hard to be healthier this year. I even had the strength to go to the gym and do the eliptical and treadmill for 45 minutes today. The breath that I just took and released is a yes from God. My beating heart that so wants to be a God-fearing daughter of the King is a yes from God. But an even bigger yes is the joy I feel in my heart and the contentment of my soul.

Now looking for God's YES everyday so that I can stand in awe of He who gave them. Will You?