Wow, I can't believe how long it has been since I posted. So many things have happened. Kids are growing up, family members have died and went to be with Jesus. The first 3 months of this year have been jam packed and then it happened....I heard a song that made me stop and think (you already know what I am going to say, ha!) I felt like I wanted to share with the rest of the world. I heard this song in the van when me and the fam were going somewhere, maybe a week ago, but I liked the song so well that I added it to my "favorites" playlist. I haven't listened to the song not one time since then and then it happened, I was going back to work after a doctor's appointment and I started playing it. It has been on repeat since this morning at 9:20 am. The song is "Beautiful Things" by Benson Boone. Here is where I would normally paste the lyrics, but this time, you are going to have to find it yourself. The jist of the song is that this guy is begging God not to take all the beautiful things from his life. That made me start thinking of all the beautiful things in my life. I immediately had thoughts of my wife and kids and how beautiful they make my life. We live in a ugly world. Wait, let me explain why I say that. I look at this world through the lens of the bible and if you see the world that way also, then you will understand what I mean when I say that this world is ugly. This world is sinful and broken, that is what makes it ugly and hard to deal with at times, but thank God Almighty that this world is painted with "Shades of Eternity". If you are a Born Again, Child of God, then you see these "Shades of Eternity" very clearly and often and when you do, you have no problem raising your hands toward heaven and thanking the Creator of the Universe for the life and eternal life He has given you. There is a couple of lines in the song that goes, "If everything's good and it's great, why do I sit and wait till it's gone?" and "But I'm up at night thinkin' I just might lose it all" These two lines might be the saddest of all. I think we sometimes look at the blessings and good things God has given us and we put our arms around them and try to hold them as tight as we can. We mess up and trade the eternal for things that are temporal. My prayer for myself is that starting today, Yahweh would help me to appreciate the beautiful things in my life more, to use those things to bring Glory to Solus Christus. I pray that when these beautiful things fade or are snatched from my life that I would not shrink into myself, but that through mercy and grace, I would rise up and SHOUT, THANK YOU GOD. You can count on it if you are a follower of Christ, that when your beautiful things are taken away, there will be more beautiful things come your way in God's time. You just have to be willing to see them. If your beautiful things have been taken, PRAY. I pray that God would open your eyes to see them. I am smiling right now and my heart is full.
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