“DEDICATION!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 569

March 8, 2022///

Years ago, I read a funny article about how different parents treat the first child versus the second and third child. Here are four of the points!

WORRIES:

1st baby: At the first sign of distress, a whimper, a frown, you pick up the baby.

2nd baby: You pick the baby up when he wails and threatens to wake your firstborn.

3rd baby: You teach your three-year-old how to rewind the mechanical swing.

PACIFIER:

1st baby: If the pacifier falls on the floor, you put it away until you can go home and wash and boil it.

2nd baby: When the pacifier falls on the floor, you squirt it off with some juice from the baby’s bottle.

3rd baby: You wipe it off on your shirt and pop it back in.

DIAPERING:

1st baby: You change your baby’s diapers every hour, whether they need it or not.

2nd baby: You change their diaper every two to three hours, if needed.

3rd baby: You try to change the diaper before others start to complain about the smell or you see it sagging to their knees.

GOING OUT:

1st baby: The first time you leave your baby with a sitter, you call home five times.

2nd baby: Just before you walk out the door, you remember to leave a number where you can be reached.

3rd baby: You leave instructions for the sitter to call only if she sees blood.

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A little amusing but it reminds me of our walk with our Savior, Jesus Christ.

When we first give our heart to Jesus, we are full of Joy and exuberance and want to tell our friends and be with other believers as often as possible.

We get to church early and linger afterward to share God’s blessings with others and hear about their week.

We make sure we pray and read the word on a regular basis.

After a while, the new wears off, and we sometimes struggle to smile and share and may be prone to use small things to keep us from gathering with other believers.

We barely slip into church as it is starting and slip out at the amen and feel we have done our duty for the week.

We pray some and read the bible when we have time, but it is not a priority.

If we are not careful, we will slip back a little further. We will forget to share and gather with other believers even though, if asked, we would say we love God and are a Christian.

We stay home from church saying we can pray and worship at home, but we rarely do, and we pray and read the word when we think about it which is not often.

May I encourage you this morning with a few scriptures to keep us loving and living for God with our whole being, mind, will and emotions and spirit!

Galatians 3:1 (KJV)
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Hebrews 10:25 (KJV)
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

2 Timothy 2:15 (KJV)
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

1 Timothy 2:8 (KJV)
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

Ephesians 6:10 (KJV)
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

We are to grow in the Lord! And we can do that by prayer, the word, and fellowship with others and gathering in church services to be fed!

We should be drawing closer to Jesus each day. We should be more, not less excited than when we first believed. Don’t become weary or stagnate!

Are you growing in your Christian faith and walk or are you in a familiar place where you know the Christian phrases, consider yourself a believer, but have no real relationship with the Lord Jesus on a daily, hourly, minute by minute basis?

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Father in Jesus name I come. I ask you to help us examine our life to determine if we are growing or cooling. You gave all for us, may we give all we are and all we are not to you! Amen

Love, MeMaw