FRIDAY, December 19th, 2008

Hey you guys! I am excited about tonight! We are going Christmas Caroling at 6:00pm tonight! If you dint have any plans then you should join us! It will be a great time!

So has anyone been sick lately? Katie and I came home on Wednesday night and Katie was very sick, she was throwing up and everything... By 4:00 am I was also very sick! I spent the day in bed all day yesterday and today Will is sick! It is so sad to see my little man throw up!

He wont be coming Christmas Caroling tonight but He should be all better by tomorrow when we go shopping!

I Thessalonians 5

1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

That is a powerful statement! Paul says: We pray that God would count you worthy! Worthy of what? Worthy of his calling! God has called you into greatness for His glory! God wants you to live a life obedient to Him and if you do then you will be happy... you will have peace! You will be walking worthy of Gods calling of your life!

Worthy gives the idea of "the worth" of something. It makes me wonder to myself... When God sees the way that I live, does it make his sacrifice worth it, or do my actions make Gods sacrifice a vain sacrifice?? I want to live in a way that makes God look at me and my life saying: It was worth coming to die for you because you have lived for me!!!

What is God worth to you? Well then walk worthy of His calling by living in obedience to Him!