God's Will for your life...ANSWERED!

After reading Micah 6:6-8 this morning, I about couldn't NOT write about it. Here's the reading..

"With what shall I come to the Lord and bow myself before the God on High? Shall I come to Him with burnt offerings, with yearling calves? Does the Lord take delight in thousands of rams, in ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my rebellious acts, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has told you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly WITH your God? Micah 6:6-8 NASB

Really? Is it that easy? I've told my SS teens many many times...Scripture is simple, not easy. This just makes so much sense to me, but why do I/we struggle so much with doing what is right? Some of the meanest people I've come across were "Christians" and I just pray that I'm not one of them. Should we take our "burnt offerings/yearling calves" of church attendance and maybe even a little Bible reading outside of church, and yes, even our piddly little offerings and expect God to be pleased? What about avoiding the "big" sins? Yeah, I'm proud that I've avoided those, but it's still not going to make Him happy without a pure heart. Not even giving up our firstborn child would satisfy Him. Which, of course, in our culture would be totally barbaric (for good reason) and personally, I'm rather attached to my firstborn. So I'm glad that wouldn't please Him. But to do justice, I daresay, Mercy would be the attribite left to us and leave the justicing to God. Love kindness, even to the people who deserve it the least...and I'm sure someone just popped into your head! And walk humbly with your God, not walk FOR your God, but WITH Him. It's a delightful relationship with the One who snatched us up from the pit of despair. Our Knight in shining armor!

O Praise the One who paid my debt and raised this life up from the dead! Jesus!

Easter

Yeah, I know it's been a week since Easter, but hey, at least it's not been a month! It was a busy day. We were at church by 7:30 for an early service. The men cooked a delicious breakfast while the kids hunted eggs. We were lucky to have a beautiful day for the kids to play outside. Kids Lilian's age hunted in one room. It was cute though. I didn't get very good shots of her in her Easter dress, but here's what I got.

Best shot I have of the whole dress.

Lilian getting her Easter basket after church (we didn't have time to do it early!)

Giving daddy a sweet kiss. I love these kind of pictures!

Doing some reading...she's really into monkey's right now. :)

Can anyone resist this grin?!?

Hiking during Spring Break

Jeff took off 3 days during my spring break and we had a blast!!! We went down to the Fern Clyffe area, it was near 80 degrees and just a super fun trip. We hiked and picnicked (SP).


Jeff and Lilian in front of the waterfall.


Glad we didn't step on this guy!


Lilian and mommy. :)


Playing in the dirt is A LOT of fun!

Hawk Cave