There are plenty of things that I have had to give up during this journey with the big “C” and back problems, but when my eyes open each and every morning I figure GOD has something that he wants to teach me today or my eyes would have stayed closed.
There is nothing like being a Titus granddad. (The older teaching the younger.) This summer I participated in teaching the boys how to play golf. Not that I can play right now, but that is what I’m dreaming of …. playing again. I wanted to play that day, but I settled for driving the cart and watching. You know, I have found that there is something to the phrase “watching and waiting.”
I have lost two friends this last summer. Both much younger, and both taken away too soon. Both were strong believers that had taken seriously the words spoken by Jesus when HE said:
“Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.” (Matthew 24:42 NASB)
They exemplified in their lives that they knew without a doubt that they were to watch and wait for the expected LORD. Sharing that belief was part of their DNA at all costs. Wow, how people watched them and their walk with the LORD. That is how we are to live, waiting as if the LORD is to come or we are to go and meet HIM at any moment of any day.
What are we truly watching and waiting for each day? What are other people watching in us when we go about? I’m watching my grandsons, and they are certainly watching me. I hope and pray that they see me patiently and prayerfully calling on the LORD for HIS presence in my life.
“But as for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine. Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance. Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored. Likewise urge the young men to be sensible; in all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified, sound in speech which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.” (Titus 2:1-8 NASB)
“Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.” (Deuteronomy 6:4-7 NASB)