Saturday morning blessings...

I have already had an AWESOME Saturday, and it is not even noon yet!  In fact, this day will only get SO much better! 

I had breakfast with a guy I really admire and relate to, Matt Graves.  Matt is a coach, dad, christian, father, husband, friend, mentor, leader, and one of the founders of Laces of Grace.  We had a three hour breakfast today and just got to know each other more, talk life, talk God, talk ministry, etc.  Just a great time.  In fact, time flew by, and I lost count of the number of cups of coffee I had!

During the course of our breakfast, we discussed MANY different things, and I just wanted to note a couple that really stood out to me, and just ask you to think about these, what you think about these, and how any of them relate to you and what they look like in your life.

Here they are:

-Most of us have a lack of faith more often than we realize in our lives.  Knowing that we have actually SEEN what God does when we have the kind of faith that he calls us to have, why in the world do we continually miss the mark in this specific area???

-As humans, we are all very guilty of judgement of others, which leads to nothing but holding both ourselves and others back from living a more fulfilled Godly life, focusing instead on the things that truly matter and serve the purpose we are suppossed to be living for.

-God is VERY faithful to his word!

-There is nothing like being surrounded by other like-minded believers that help carry us through our lives.  They provide encouragement, correction, love, support, and so many other things that we need to survive each day moving forward towards what God has called us to.  I thank God for that group of people in my life!

-We make our faith alot more complicated than it needs to be.

-Matt said this, and it is a thought-provoking statement/thought:  If you were around when Jesus walked the Earth, and didn't see, but only HEARD of the miracles he performed and who he claimed to be, would you have believed it?  Stop and think about that...

-Husbands and wives are blessed to have one another.  We are both blessed to have a woman in our lives that is an ideal help-mate and supporter of who we are as individuals and as men.  Relationships aren't selfish or about us, but rather about waking up and serving one another---about sacrificing---just as Christ served and sacrificed for us!

-And finally, we both agreed that this morning was a blessing on so many different levels.  We also looked at the fact that it happened because we both wanted to meet, we proactively set an appointed time to do so, we listened, shared, tried to grow, and saw God within it.  We carried a Christ-like attitude towards this time.  So if we do this with other friends and believers, why don't we all set more appointments like this in our lives with God?  That is TOTALLY on us to do, to proactively grow and develop our faith and our relationship with Jesus.

I hope your day is awesome, and that if your life seems to just not be where you want it, or things could be going better for you, then remember that we are all just ONE RIGHT CHOICE from being back on the right road!  Have faith and make that right choice TODAY and experience all of the peace, love, and joy that God desires for your life!