Blessings From 11 Year Old Eyes

This is a guest blog by my 11 year old daughter. Unplanned, unsolicited, unedited--here it is . . . and maybe just a little bit of a proud daddy!

Blessings

    There are many blessings around us, ones that we know and are humble about and ones that we take for granted and don't even know about.

    The Lord can be in both of those categories, admit it we take him for granted but other times we are wise and careful.

    There is a story that I have heard lately about this topic. The Israelites were given the promise land that the Lord said that he would give them. They had all that they needed and they thanked the Lord. But then they started to take Him for granted and they sinned and kept falling short which is likely but they were doing it all the time and they were leaning away from him and kept sinning. Well for a while the Lord let them sin and receive the consequences that they deserved until the Israelites were on there feet praying and begging to the Lord. They had taken the Lord for granted and then he stepped out and they suffered and disobeyed the Lord.

    But there are many more stories where the people are wise and careful like in the story of David and Goliath where the Israelites and the Philistine were having a battle and the philistines were tall and strong and they had a giant on there team named Goliath. He was always shouting to the Israelites who would want to fight him and no one ever did because they were to scared. But then one day a young boy named David stepped up and said that he would fight him. So David prayed wisely to the Lord and got ready to fight. David beat Goliath because he was faithful to the Lord.

    This spring break for me was a blessing. To start it off I shot archery in Springfield for state and got first place for girls. I was praising God and feeling so blessed. The next morning I went to Minnesota with some of my good friends to see some good friends. we had a good time and got to see all the things that they were blessed with when they moved there and got to have a of fun.

So to rap things up there are blessings all around us from God himself. The biggest blessing was that he sent his only son to forgive our sins by dying on the cross.

So to cover everything there are many blessings around us in the world some are hidden and others we see clearly.

Have a good week and may you be blessed!