Saturday, June 29, 2013

Be Ready to Follow the Lord

Jesus tells us, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of the Man has no place to lay his head." Jesus says, "Follow me." Luke 9: 57-62

As I have been cleaning and organizing my room the last couple days, I have realized how much useless stuff that I have. This stuff just builds and builds until I feel that my life is consumed of stuff. Why do I need to accumulate so many things? The Lord tells me that I don`t need these things and that they will get in the way of serving him. So after clean sweeping a few things this afternoon, I was looking out my window and I saw a Black-capped Chickadee bird fly over to the large flower pot that is right below my window. I found out that she is a mamma bird. She had built a nest in the pot and she had little babies in the nest that she was feeding. As I watched the mamma bird feed her babies, I thought of the Lord and how He feeds me with His Word. He is all I need and I need to follow Him.


Friday, June 28, 2013

Living to Please the Lord

The Lord tells us in the Bible, "Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody." (I Thessalonians 4:11-12)

My goal with this blog is to find and share ideas for living a simple life that is pleasing to the Lord. I would like to be more organized, to clean sweep all the extra junk, stop buying useless things, eat healthier, plant a garden, eat home-cooked meals, eat out less, buy more local items, learn to fix things on my own, make handcrafted gifts, spend less and save more. As I look out at the grapevine in the back yard, I am encouraged  by knowing that the Lord always provides for me exactly what I need.