What Are YOU Pointing At?

What Are YOU Pointing At?

Yesterday my daughter, Staci, shared a story with me about a friend who was "delighting" in sharing about his young granddaughter. She's not talking much yet, but she sure can point to what she wants. She knows that whatever she points to -- she's going to get. In fact, her granddaddy is at her beckoned call to give that little angel girl anything she wants.

Staci went on to share how her friend asked her "What are YOU pointing to?" He went on to explain...."God, your Heavenly Father, is just waiting for you to POINT to that dream, vision, prayer, or desire and He, more than any earthly father wants to bless His kids, who calls you His own, His masterpiece, His prized possession, the apple of His eye.....wants to bless you and give you the desires of your heart. Just POINT to them!"

Psalm 37:4 says "Take delight in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart." That's the crux of the matter.....when we, as God's kids, delight in Him, He can't help Himself -- His desire is to pour out blessings on us. I love the idea of God giving me the desires of my heart, but that promise has a condition—delight myself in the Lord. That’s the part of the verse where I have to ask myself whether I am truly delighting myself in Him or not. I wondered how the Bible defined “delighting myself in the Lord". I knew it wasn’t an abstract concept. Two verses that I found helped me to know if I was really delighting myself in the Lord or not:

“I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart”. Psalm 40:8

"For in my inner being, I delight in God’s law." Romans 7:22

I think this verse explains it best....Luke 10:27 "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind." When we delight in Him and give Him that much love, He delights to give us the desires of our hearts.

What are WE pointing at? More importantly....WHO are we pointing our lives TO?

Babe Magnet Captures This Babe

Day 3 of 365 days of "Seizing the Moments" in photos this year.

What could be closer to our Heavenly Father than the purity and preciousness of a baby? This little angel was across the aisle from me on my flight from Seattle to Dallas today. His shirt said "Babe Magnet" on it. He was. He captured my heart and drew me to him the entire trip. I haven't had a guy flirt with me like that in a very long time. LOL. He was a happy and peaceful baby all the way which made everyone around him fall in love with him, too.

As I watched the pride and joy that his daddy had in Him, I thought about the pride and joy we must bring to our Heavenly Father. This little charmer on the plane today was so loved by his daddy and that love was in no way performance-based. That little guy couldn't do anything on his own, to merit any more love than he already had from his daddy.

Did you know the love our Father has for us isn't performance-based either? We can't do enough to settle the score, to merit His favor, or to deserve the ultimate price of love He paid for us. He loves us just because we are His kids, the sheep of His pasture, His pearls of great price, the apples of His eyes. There is no gift we could ever give Him that could repay His love, except for one gift. We can give him ourselves, totally and utterly devoted to Him.

I think I'll slip on my "God Magnet" shirt so my devotion to Him keeps on making Him smile big at me as I bring Him pride and joy.