Garden

I realize today that I'm not doing very well at this blog posting thing.  My blog is entitled, A Girls Daily Bread, right? I've only seemed to have two posts.  I guess life gets in the way sometimes, just like it can when we think about trying to squeeze in time in our day to hear from God.  My prayer today has been simply for God to give me a perfect heart or rather a perfectable heart. Our pastor has been speaking on this for the past few weeks.  What is a perfectable heart? It's not about "being" perfect-we already have too much of perfectionism in the world as it is.  It's about the willingness to be made perfect, not of ourselves, but by Jesus changing us daily to be more like him. When thinking about this question-a song I've been mediating on recently...popped into my head. The name of the song is called Garden by Need to Breathe.  The chorus goes something like this-"Let the songs I sing bring joy to you, let the words I say profess my love, let the notes I choose be your favorite tune...Father let my heart be after you."  I can imagine Jesus in the garden, knowing he was to face his death and his heart was still perfect before his Father. The amazing thing is that we can have that same heart...because Jesus lives inside of us.  So, I'm learning that to have that perfectable heart before God, we need to find a quiet place before him, in the garden of our hearts, and let Jesus live
from the inside out. 


Check out the song below-
http://www.needtobreathe.net/music/garden/

Sweet Thing

No, I'm not talking about desserts here ladies, although who doesn't love them? I read an interesting tidbit today concerning our significant others.  In a recent study conducted by our very own University of North Carolina found that the more you feel gratitude toward your significant other, the stronger your relationship will be.  I thought, doesn't that go back to a basic principle that Christ teaches about our marriages and as the body of believers.  He calls us to edify and build up one another.  It's easier sometimes to notice the negatives things than the right things that someone's doing.  I like this quote by Eleanor Roosevelt, "It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." Jesus put it another way, "Let your light shine before men(Matt. 5:14)." We should let Christ's light shine through us-even and most importantly to our spouses.... So the next time our hubby's do something sweet for us, no matter how big or small, lets make sure we let them know we noticed...it does everyone good! 

Rejoice in the Good News!

Philippians 4:4

"Rejoice in the Lord always, I will say it again: Rejoice!"
I found myself early to rise this morning.  My mind unable to rest, my thoughts continually on a young boy with cancer.  I open the Word of Truth to Philippians 4:4-How can this be? How can we rejoice in sickness and a hopeless diagnosis?  He simply responds, we can rejoice that no matter what the circumstance that God is ultimately GOOD!  The good news of Christ is alive and active.  It is active in our circumstances no matter the world's prognosis.  He is calling us to look beyond what we see with our eyes and  see through eyes of faith.  Faith, that is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see (Heb 11).  It's pressing in to know the Father's heart for us-no matter the situation we find ourselves in.  It's believing that He has all the answers and we can rest in His love for us. So rejoice today that God is good and His love and mercy endures forever.