Our heavenly theater

Our Daily Bread
As you might notice from my "Movie Monday" weekly feature, I love going to first run movies at the theater. I admit that it can get expensive, however, I use coupons, gas discounts, discount tickets, and whatever else I can do to defray the costs because I enjoy it so much.  Where is this going, you might ask?

The devotional talks about the "heavenly theater" that we can watch every clear night for free!  We can see the handiwork of God to create all of the heavens above.  He also keeps it all moving in harmony as we watch from our humble little planet earth.  How amazing is our God!  I can barely follow a recipe at times while he speaks a universe into existence!

Lord, you are an amazing and awesome God.  Thank you for the privilege to worship and serve you!

Simply Saturday
Live like that
I shared a song called "I want to live like that" a few weeks ago.  I decided to write a entry on "I DON'T want to live like that" with a different spin.

First, I don't want to live a life without a close relationship with God.  I tried that and it didn't work for me.

Second, I don't want to live a life that has grudges and hard feelings.  I think I have done a good job of pursuing out folks that I offended and offered apologies. Sometimes people accept them.  Sometimes not.  If I ask forgiveness from them and from God, then I feel like the only other thing I can do is pray for the person.  I was feeling very proud of myself until I realized that I needed to do some attitude adjustment.  I realized that I hadn't forgiven the person for not forgiving me.  I didn't know how I would act or if I would act in a loving way if the person did come back into my life.  I am working on that.

Third, I don't want to live a life where I think I am the general manager of the universe.  God is above all, not me.  I don't want to judge folks.  I don't want to worry about every little thing that I should be turning over to God.

Lastly, I don't want to live a life of narcissism or selfishness.  We see so many people that are soooo caught up in themselves.  We see it on TV, the Internet and the news all the time.  God instructs us to love others as we love ourselves.  In short, that means we can't love ourselves MORE than others.

How do you want to live?

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We are far from perfect, but despite our mistakes and our sins, we will never abandon the Lord and he will never abandon us - adapted from a statement about Abraham from the EfM Training Guide