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Monday... This is a tremendous time to show we love them.


Monday... This is a tremendous time to show we love them.

I'm running a little late this morning. I was at an assembly at two of my granddaughter's elementary school. Thank you so much God for my family. Each one of them is such a tremendous gift by you to me. Thank you, thank you so much. May I continually show how much I love you by how much I love them.

Proverbs 11:29 (MSG) gives some great wisdom about family. It says, "Exploit or abuse your family, and end up with a fistful of air; common sense tells you it's a stupid way to live." It really is.

Christmas is such a tremendous time of giving. We celebrate the greatest of all gifts, the birth of Jesus by giving gifts out to our family. It is not the cost of the gift that is important but the love behind the gift. I really do love my son and daughter and then the ones they met and through love married and then the four granddaughters that Papa and Gigi love to spoil. I love my family.

But the abuse that is done within families really is a stupid way to live. It really is. This world in so many ways has turned their back on the greatest gift ever given and it shows up in how people exploit and abuse their family. God has shown us how to love, really love. He gave his great gift of love to those he also loves.

So stop and seek out this season, God's gift of love, his son Jesus and then in turn show how much you love him by loving the family he has also given you. 

You may be single but you have a dad and mom and maybe a brother or sister or others that you call family. 

Now you might say, they have disappointed me, they have hurt me. There is no way that they deserve a gift from me. Could God say the same thing about us? But he still loves us and shows us he loves us by giving to us. His love for us is not determined by what we have done for him but it is determined by his love for us. 

The New Living Translation says, "Those who bring trouble on their families inherit the wind. The fool will be a servant to the wise." 

Let's be wise and not bring trouble on our family. They really do need our love, each one of them does just like we do from them and above all from God. So let's do all we can to not inherit the wind.

The Amplified Bible says, "He who troubles (mismanages) his own house will inherit the wind (nothing), and the foolish will be a servant to the wise-hearted." It is not too late to start. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning 


 


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