Another Reason Why We Need Each Other!

Who doesn't love good stuff first thing in the morning?

This morning I (sans coffee) bopped and clicked my way over to Leslie's.

Wow!

PLEASE go read that post!

I can't completely explain what happened when I read that post.

But, trust me when I tell you I was bubbling with inspiration afterwards.

It was as if a match had been struck and set

to a powder keg of thoughts, ideas and realizations.

Things that were inert inside me, until the spark was added!

I ran around doing some chores, got ready and went to our monthly Ladies meeting.

(Our group is called Women With Wings).

Great meeting.

Our Pastor is wonderful and I appreciate so much the gift of God in her,

and how she is faithful in all that she does, including bringing out the best in us.

Anyway, on the drive home, I was thinking about the cross,

and how impressed I have been lately with the fact

that the arms of the cross are reaching out to us.

I know, Captain Obvious strikes again.

But, I have really been impacted

by the R - E- A- C- H- I- N- G

of the arms of that cross lately.

How all encompassing they are.

How much sin those arms bore the weight of.

How many, many people it was intended for.

And these thoughts led me to the song I posted here.

And all that led me to remember what I wanted my faith to mean,

that I want it to accomplish something.

And I thought about some things about my past, and how God helped me get out of some ruts, that were not good for His name or me or anything.

He's real good like that!

And all that reminded me of Life in the Cave!

Which is a message God put on my heart about a year or so ago.

That will be my next post!

This one was to say that this whole post

was fueled by sparks set to bits and pieces of good stuff

just floating around inside me, not doing anything.

Not until I read some inspirational thoughts from a friend, a Godly, fun-loving woman!

And THEN I went and spent time with a bunch of other women,

excited about the goodness of God,

and the purpose of God to work IN us,

so that we can be all that we are meant to be.

For our good, and the good of all those around us.

All that fellowship, all that discussing God's Word,

and understanding what that looks like in each of our lives,

lit up a fire inside me.

We all need that periodically.

We need the quiet times, too!

But the quiet times would suffocate us, if we didn't follow that up,

with interaction with

other people of faith, zeal, integrity, joy of life.

"And let us consider one another

to provoke unto love and to good works:
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,

as the manner of some is;

but exhorting one another:

and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."

Hebrews 10:24-25