Good Evening Devotion :-)❤️

shirleynpenalosa (63)in #christian-trail • 8 years ago

Through the Eyes of a Child

Jesus called for the children and said to the disciples, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I assure you, anyone who doesn’t have their kind of faith will never get into the Kingdom of God.”Luke 18:16-17

When children discover a new treasure, they are not content to simply look at it. They touch, smell, and explore it. With wide-eyed delight they share the treasure with others. Even if the “treasure” is a creepy crawling insect or a wide-eyed toad, it’s beautiful to the one who found it! As adults we sometimes miss the joy of experiencing the treasures that surround us. One of those treasures is our faith. As time passes, we might forget our first love for God or even take our faith for granted. Our lives become busy and complicated, and it becomes easy to get caught up in what we think are more “important” matters. Sometimes we intellectualize the Bible or our relationship with God and completely miss the simplicity and beauty of it.

The excitement and joy of new believers is like that of a child who has discovered a treasure. They marvel at it, delight in it, and can’t help but share it with others. Revisit the moment you accepted Christ as your Savior and ask God to restore the excitement of your first love for him.

PRECIOUS SAVIOR, I sometimes take my faith for granted. Forgive me for the times I make my faith complicated or cumbersome. I want to embrace the freshness I felt when I first knew you and rejoice in the simplicity of my Father’s love, but there are also new depths that you wish to show me. I ask you to take my faith to the next level, and then help me to share it with others.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child, Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.
Charles Wesley (1707–1788)

(Source: from my friend's {@catietan} devotional materials)

Good evening my dear sweet and grateful steemit family and friends! :-)❤️ I just got home a few hours ago from Baguio and I still feel a little bit dizzy and my head aches severely. I have missed so much in steemit and of course, all of you here, I miss you all.

"As time passes, we might forget our first love for God or even take our faith for granted. Our lives become busy and complicated, and it becomes easy to get caught up in what we think are more “important” matters. Sometimes we intellectualize the Bible or our relationship with God and completely miss the simplicity and beauty of it."This is so true in most Christians' life (I must admit this is so true in my life right now) and I haven't much of that time to devote myself in prayers this previous weeks and I hate it, I do and I am asking God to rescue me and to help me manage my time. I love my present work, and I love to travel too. With all these and my physical body is not that strong when it comes to traveling long distance but I praise and thank God I survived this week.

This devotion reminds me to bring or go back to my first love, GOD. We all have to go back to our first love at times especially when we are caught up so busy with our work or anything that makes God our 2nd priority. I hope that we are all encouraged by this timely devotion and my thanks again to my faithful friend, @catietan. And as I close, may this prayer be our prayer too, "PRECIOUS SAVIOR, I sometimes take my faith for granted. Forgive me for the times I make my faith complicated or cumbersome. I want to embrace the freshness I felt when I first knew you and rejoice in the simplicity of my Father’s love, but there are also new depths that you wish to show me. I ask you to take my faith to the next level, and then help me to share it with others."

In JESUS' NAME, AMEN :-)❤️

Thank you very much for your time and God bless :-)

I am @sashley a.k.a. shirleynpenalosa, a recipient of God's love, mercy and grace. ❤️

Have a blessed Summer month of April 2018 everyone :-)❤️

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