Friends

in life, friends come and go. For whatever reason, relationships change. There is loss involved and grief comes. Yet, it can not be stopped or changed-it simply happens. We invest a lot of ourselves in those friendships and relationships. I just wonder if we took that effort-in chasing after other people and spending time with them and used it to invest in our relationship with God-what the difference might be. Because there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother-one who will never betray you, change, or leave. He is worth pursuing above all other relationships. A TRUE Covenant Friend.ALL FOR YOU

WALLS

Walls are intended to keep things in OR keep things out. Walls can be good things. In fact, Nehemiah was a man who was burdened because the Walls were down and knew that God's children were at the mercy of the world due to the walls being in ruins. So there is a protective need to have walls around us. However, walls can also be bad, for when we build them around us and don't let things in that need to come in-we can miss out on what God has for us. God doesn't want us to build a wall around our hearts to keep good things out. That is why for ALL walls there must be gate...a way for the good to get in, but also a protected entrance so the bad doesn't come in as well. Walls....good and bad. Which ones have you built...? Are you just keeping stuff out...or are you a gated community, alert and watching what passes through the gate, but open to what the Lord wants to come in? ALL FOR YOU

Boxes

As I prepare to move, my task is to put our entire life into a box. That is both a good and bad thing. It certainly makes it easier for moving and transport, however, it is kinda sad. All of life, taped up and compartmentalized. I would rather live outside the box, so that I could see and enjoy life. But for many of us we struggle with being inside the box...because their is comfort and "sense" there. For others of us we struggle outside the box with too much freedom. God wanted us to see and enjoy His glory and His creation, living outside the box, but He desires that we do so within the boundaries of His design and ways. Balance and Boxes...necessary to make it work. Live outside the box, between the lines, but within the plan! ALL FOR YOU