My birthday’s
coming up! I turn 30 (yuck!) on June 17th...
You know what I would love for my birthday... If everybody who cares about me
talked for days about the awesome presents they were going to get for me – and then
my birthday came, and everybody gave me a bunch of left-over junk that they
were too embarrassed to put in their garage sales. That would be awesome!
Have you
detected my subtle, sarcastic tone? Nobody
wants to get handed a crusty, empty Kit-Kat wrapper and be told it’s a gift. But sometimes I do that to Someone I claim to
love more than anyone else… I don’t
think God likes getting my leftovers. It
doesn’t seem right to me the only time I give God during the day is my half-conscious
sleepy-time when I’m waking up in the morning. It doesn’t seem right to me when I don’t
thoroughly prepare for our get-togethers on Sunday mornings… I don’t like when I look back at a week and
realize that I treated God like He’s not the most important Person I will ever
know. But I do it. Am I the only one?
I’m teaching
this Sunday, and instead of talking about not giving God your leftover junk, we’ll
focus more on how to give God the best that you can!
The reading
schedule for this week (1 day late due to the holiday) is:
Monday: 1
Samuel 15:1-9 | Tuesday: 1 Samuel 15:10-23 | Wednesday: 1 Samuel 15:24-35 | Thursday:
Mark 12:13-27 | Friday: Mark 12:28-40 | Saturday: Mark 12:41-44
And the
memory verse is:
1 Samuel 15:22
But Samuel
replied, "What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and
sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Obedience is far better than
sacrifice. Listening to him is much better than offering the fat of rams.
Hi! What do you want for Your birthday?
Posted by: Cambria | May 29, 2007 at 04:30 PM
Hmmm... A birthday card with a nice note inside! : )
Posted by: Laura | May 30, 2007 at 08:15 AM