Today, please listen

I've got a wedding on the Cape this weekend, so I did all those things yesterday that I normally do on Fridays. When I read Hebrews 3, I needed to hear this sentence from David's Psalm, "Today, please listen."

Apparently, I needed to hear it today too (and every day).

"God means what he says. What he says goes. [If only we are paying attention.] His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon's scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey."

We can read the Bible every day and go to church every Sabbath, but if we are not listening and obeying, working these words into our lives, it's all for not. There is no transformation. We have no light to shine in this dark world. Jesus is not overcome but the darkness, but we can be.

I saw David on his birthday yesterday at swim lessons. After 4 days of class, Malachi still did not want to participate. I did not handle it well, so we left early.

I need to listen and have faith that God is in this thing. All the time. When I am weak, he is strong.

Our children look to us from the minute they are born as God's representatives. That is their first confidence. In us. In God. It is one and the same.