Samuel's first time driving a battery operated vehicle!
In Iowa for Grandpa Black's funeral
Here is something that the Holy Spirit placed in Cody's spirit a couple months ago. May we all glean from the knowledge of Gods love.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son..."
God gave the most valuable and precious thing in His heart away, His only Son. The reward of the only Son being given is an eternal inheritance of more sons and daughters than can be counted in the image of Gods only son Christ Jesus. Christ the seed died that many would live. Greater intimacy comes with the cost of suffering with Christ and His Father in giving away our only or last.
I feel the Spirit encouraging you and I to give away our "only's." Lord help us to give away everything for the gospel; to give away as you require, to give our only time in the day for us to do something for ourselves, to give away our only piece of bread to one who has no bread, to give away our only income to someone who has none, to give away our only vehicle, to give away our only dream, to give away our last worldly comfort, to give away our only time for rest, to give away our only opportunity to eat, to give away our only reputation in order that another may gain honor, to give away our only bed to a man who has no bed, to give away my only house to those who have no house, to give away my only winter coat to a man who needs one, to give away our only source of comfort that another may be comforted, to give away our only son or our only daughter for the gospel, to give away our only life and only death to Jesus.
I started to think of Keith Greens song, I Pledge My Head for the Gospel: " I pledge my head for the gospel, I pledge my wife for the gospel, I pledge my son for the gospel."
Unless a man loses his life he will not find it. May God give us the desire and courage to suffer for love. For in this, in the cross, is the deepest mysteries of Gods love.
