How Blessed we truly are

Anyone who has children has heard the response, "Why?" when said child has been asked to do something. It doesn't matter what the something is: picking up clothes from floor, not talking about others, walking outside in twenty-degree weather with no shoes, when asked not to do something, the little one will ask, "Why?"

I think it is human nature not to be told/commanded to do things. We like to do things our own way, in our own time. But, just as our parents told us, we tell our children to help them avoid certain outcomes. We want to help them avoid certain outcomes, certain consequences, certain potential formed habits that will hinder his/her growth and health.

Today's word is Psalm 112:1, NIV, which reads, "Praise the LORD. Blessed are those who fear the LORD, who find great delight in His commands.

We teach/instruct our children to pick his/her clothes up so that they aren't slobs when they get older. We teach them not to talk about others because we should try to be kind and respectful, just as we want others to be of us. We teach them not to go outside barefoot when it is twenty degrees because we love them and don't want them to suffer the possibility of being sick. We teach them because we love them.

GOD has given us commands and commandments to keep us from the pitfalls and the consequences of poor choices and to help us grow and mature into the creations He has meant us to be. He commands us because He loves us. And, just as we are trying to teach our children how to do things right and proper and appropriately, GOD, too, is trying to teach us to do things right and proper and appropriately. And if we will obey His commands, we will see how blessed we truly are.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T