Verses: Psalms 71: 1 - 24
Song inspired by the
chapter: Song has been uploaded from YouTube.com and is not my original.
My thoughts about the
verses:
Many of us have someone
in our life that we look up to. An older
person that seems that no matter what goes on has an eye on their reward. Hard times befall them yet they only grow
stronger. They live with the one known
concept that God has gotten them through things and will do so until the end.
I read this and though
about my great grandmother. She had so
many lessons to teach us. She lived to
be over a hundred years and had many things happen in her life. She was born in the last year of the civil
war. In which, her father and uncles and
brothers fought in. She was the third youngest
of thirty kids that her father had from his fifth wife.
She saw electricity come
into houses. She saw the car hit the
road. She lived through both world wars,
Vietnam War and the Korea War. She saw 8
generations of her family and she loved them all the same. She married the love of her life and when he
passed after being married for fifty years she lived the rest of her life a
widow.
The one thing that she
taught all that knew her was the love of her God. She loved God more than anything else in this
world. She shared that love with anyone
that would listen. She had seen pain her
whole life from losing her parents, outliving her brothers and sisters, losing
children and grandchildren. Yet, she
lived with peace. Peace knowing that one
day she would be united forever with her God.
She showed the world that if you give your life over to God you can have
peace no matter the hardships that come along.
Even in her last days as
was limited on what she could physically do she still held onto her bible. The bible was the only thing that she could
read. Multiple prayer groups would come
and see her. She taught us that death wasn’t
the end it was the beginning. She had
lived her whole life waiting to go home.
She died in peace knowing that God had not betrayed her. She knew that she was going to a place far
better than any place she could ever have here.
I was there that last
day and I can still see her small smile.
She knew the time was coming. She
waited for my grandmother to leave before she crossed over. I think this was her last act of kindness to
show her daughter that she was protected.
My grandmother is just like her feisty yet and the same time in love
with God. She loves people and people
lover her. She is now the matriarch of
the family and you can feel the same peace that her mom had. If I can only live to be half of the
Christian woman that either of them have been their whole life I have done them
proud.
There is a lot we can
learn from the stories of our ancestors.
As they build churches, held prayer groups, and learned to read the
greatest story told. We can learn that
our faith in God is the most important thing that we can have. Trusting God will get us through all of life’s
twist and turns. We need to realize that
the only thing that matters is putting love of God first in our life. God is there with us when we are young and
restless. God is also there when we are
old and tired. God is helping us get
through the struggles if only we allow God to.
It is our faith that we will be judged on. Thankfully I had the best examples to follow
and know that loving God is the most important part of my life above all other
things.
Prayer:
Dear God thank you for
your love. Thank you for giving us Christians
to learn from. Help us be an example to
others. May our life be a reward for you? In the name of the Most High we pray. Amen
Questions:
Do you have faith in God? Do you know that no matter what happens God is
there? Have you turned your life over to
the one that can make you free?
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