He is Wonderful...

wow...even though we did not have much this Christmas-what we did have was absolutlely priceless...my husband, children and family...I believe this was my most favorite Christmas-even though I cannot really pin down exactly why? Unfortunatly my dad was unable to spend it with us, having the swine flu and other family circumstances seperated our other side-but it ended up being truely wonderful...I have to say I was more thankful and greatful this year than maybe ever before-I guess realizing the value of the human soul and how daily we take life for granted...I see so keenly the reality of how life is a vapor-it's truely hard to face at times. It breaks my heart to know, we're not going to live on this earth with each other forever-but there was a verse I read yesterday at my Granny's house...

"The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more unto the perfect day." Proverbs 4:18

I read that and it just really sunk in...I mean let's be honest, we are all afraid of aging and gettin old and passing...but, we have this hope that the Lord is going to finish the work He has begun in us until the day of Jesus Christ-like a dear friend told me, age is just the grace of the Lord upon us to show us we are fragile and our lives are fleeting-he gives us another day yes, we may have wrinkles and gray hairs but it's the glory of the Lord that we are alive-we are still on this planet for a purpose which He has prepared and we will be here until He is finished using us how He sees fit-so another day of agespots and arthritis is His graciousness in our lives for us to glorify His name-even in suffering...
lol, I was standing at my grandmothers kitchen sink early that day and I was washing a load of dishes and my hands have been so irritated with a rash from soap and cleaning all the time, cracking, bleeding, having issues like I may have carpal tunnel in my wrists----but I was sitting there and washing the dishes in a little pain-and it hit me-I believe it was the Holy Spirit just communing with me as I served my family in cleaning up the kitchen...that the Lord gave me this body I am in-these members-arms,legs, fingers, hands, ect. to use for His glory-to bring Him glory-and as long as I am able I want to serve Him and my family in whatever capacity I can-and I was thankful to even be able to function-to do the task...it was so sweet, I just want to cry writing this...but it was like this all day yesterday, the Lord was giving me moments of revelation and insight into HIs word...it was so WONDERFUL---haha, HE is wonderful, Counselor, MIGHTY God, Prince of Peace-EVERLASTING FATHER! Wow, HE was SHOWING ME CHRISTMAS-ON CHRISTMAS-HIMSELF-Jesus! Wow, Isaiah 9:6!!! Thank you Jesus, this is exactly what we heard Sunday morning before Christmas-Bro. Steve Whitcomb----Jesus is amazing---sorry it's just so funny because everything is just clicking within me as I write-it's just how the Lord is---Wonderful...tear*...It was an amazing day-of revelation and sweet communion with the Lord unlike I've ever known on Christmas---I believe it came through serving and being still-all at the same time...becoming low and doing what no one else wanted to do DISHES-humbling myself and the Lord served me...with bread I knew not of...

"Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when He cometh He find watching: verily I say unto you, that He shall gird Himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them." Luke 12:37

Wow...amazing...Jesus is so good to us.