He Loves Us More

Good Afternoon:

Okay let me set the scene for you. It was about 6:30a.m. and Alan and I sneak into Jade's room and I sat a pretty pink gift bag on her night stand. We are peeking around the corner to watch her reaction. Alan dials her number and the phone begins to go off with some crazy ring tone her brother has put on it. The first call goes out, she moves around a little but doesn't wake up. So I whisper to him, call again. The call goes out and she sits up, she is a little unsure where the noise is coming from. We are two excited giggling parents watching her. The last call goes out and she sees the sack lighting up, she sees her parents watching her, she smiles and reaches down into the sack and there it is. A pink cell phone that she thought she couldn't live without. I don't know who was feeling more joy at that moment. I am so happy for her and she is trying to believe what she is seeing. Her smile is worth it all. I will continue to remember that smile when the bill comes.

This afternoon I am thinking of what the word of God says in Luke 11:13. If ye then, being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? It is hard for most of us to imagine that our heavenly Father loves us more than we do our own children. It came to my mind that maybe in heaven as our Father calls out to us and we don't respond the first call, he tells the Holy Spirit, call again, a little more response but still we haven't found the prize, call again, He says. Finally we hear the call and hopefully answer.

He left it all because He loves us more. I wish I could play the song for you that the choir sang Easter morning. He left the safety of heaven, Jesus left it, all because He loved us more. It is more than my mind can conceive, Jesus left it all because He loved us more. Wow! Think on that today.

Jade doesn't really realize the sacrifice her parents made to give her a cell phone just so that she can call and chat with her friends, do I realize the sacrifice made for me? Thank you, Father, for all that you have given me and sacrificed for me. I love you, Lord.

Karen