30 is only the beginning…
Yesterday was a big day around here. 30 years have come and gone and I’m that much older and wiser. The funny thing is, I don’t feel like I’m 30. It didn’t come over as the milestone I’ve been picturing it to be.
It could be a lot of things really. It’s strange not being established in a career right now. I honestly hoped that I would still be playing football at this point but God has greater plans for our lives. He has taken us on an interesting trip that results in where we are today.
Today we are in a good place. We are blessed more that most of the world.
I could make a list all day of the blessings we have. Simple blessing that we take for granted everyday. When I woke up this morning, I could see. I can walk and run, pick up my kids, talk with my friends. It’s the little things that we overlook. Money, jobs, college education; there is so much we cold be worrying about. Leave these for another day. Today I will seek the Lord’s face. I will trust and obey. I will surrender myself to His will and ask how I can be a part of what He is doing, not what can He do for me.
These words get me through times like we are going through now. Both personally and economically, and as a international community.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Mat 6:25-34)
Blessed are you O Lord, who clothes us and feeds us. You O Lord who love us more than all of creation to want relationship with us. Thank you Father for your mercy and your grace. You knew we would need it. Lord bless my next 30 years a fraction of the blessing I’ve already received and I will be a very blessed man.