Fundamentals

A few weeks ago I was having lunch w/ a dear friend of mine, someone whom I consider a mentor. We were talking about the changes and challenges that our first child will bring.

He gave a good piece of advice: Go back to the fundamentals --- our relationship w/ God and our relationship with each other. To provide a safe, secure family for our child, we must seek God and make sure He is at the center/foundation of our lives and the child must not replace our marriage or each other. If we don't adhere to the fundamentals, we cannot provide a healthy, growing family for our child.

Blessings

I encountered an insightful way to bless somebody through prayer from church last Sun. Look at the person and see how they would be like if their life were completely under Christ’s lordship and their character were transformed to be like Christ’s character. How would they be different? What actions and character qualities of their life would be different? Think about those things and pray for them to happen.

e.g. Pray that they would be slow to anger, God would give them wisdom, they can communicate clearly with their spouse, God would increase their capacity to love by showing them His love.

No Fear

As I've been reading and meditating through Romans, God has been putting the fear of God, or rather lack of fear, on my heart.

Rom 3:18 says "There is no fear of God before their eyes."

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Rom 1:20-21 (NIV)

Although we know God, do we recognize Him for who He is? His insurmountable power, His servant's heart, His incomparable love for us, His impending righteous judgement.

Do we recognize His greatness or do we have a small view of who God is? Do we fear God?