1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words." Many people have no hope for "the afterlife". We can have so much hope though! I want others to be able to have that hope too.
Yesterday the Lord continually brought to mind my journal entry about missions. My boys and I were at the park inside our town home complex. A new family was moving in next door. "Cookies... they need some cookies for all that hard work. God... they need to know God." Truth be told, I have no idea if they know God, but it was so refreshing for that to be my first thought for them! I read a book a long time ago where a man loved to bake. And whenever he baked for someone he included a Bible verse with it to encourage them. Later that day, my 4 year old carried the plate up to their front door. "Knock, knock," he said through the open passage way. A little girl came to the doorway with long, dark curly hair. They exchanged smiles. "Merry Christmas!" Camden shouted as he skipped down the steps. As we walked back to our house I felt such peace. We did something for the Lord. I felt the prompting and I obeyed. "Thank you, Lord."
I talked to my son about the Bible verse we sent with the cookies. Hopefully he understands the need to share Jesus with everyone we meet. The impact it had on that family might have been very little... or it could mean the difference in their salvation. We might not ever know. But I pray that a seed has been planted.
When I die I will leave a legacy behind for my children. This is the legacy I choose. All glory to God. My life is useless if not lived out for HIM. If my children take away nothing else from me, I pray that they take that. I have so much work to do, but, "I can do all things through Jesus who gives me strength."
I'm glad that you communicate with your neighbors. We live in a very close development, but the people here are not close at all. It's like we purposely try to avoid eachother. You would think with a development like this that everyone would know eachother, but that isn't the case. I attempted to make a facebook page to get people talking this year right before Trick-Or-Treat, but only 4 people joined out of the whole neighborhood. I thought about posting flyers and trying again. People seem to be so scared of eachotehr anymore.
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