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Recognize these seemingly insignificant moments as God’s little gifts – the random ones, out of nowhere. They appear in our face and delight us to no end.
Fred approached me last night at Gold’s Gym and thanked me for the inspiration. He said he wasn’t going to come to the gym and then he thought “what would Jeff say?”.
He was dead serious.
I was exceptionally surprised, and abundantly grateful. God sent a tiny gift of encouragement to my doorstep.
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Perhaps the best gift we can give ourselves doesn’t seem so.
Today, would we consider time alone with God… a gift?
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We are actually given too much of this good thing every single day – that each of our daily actions holds a prayer. Ah yes, if we would only be present long enough to remember this. Perhaps our days would give us everything we need, and then some.
This month jeff noel is encouraging Mid Life Celebration readers to follow all five daily blogs about work life balance. It’s a breeze to go from this spiritual health blog to the money (career) blog, just click -> go to Next Blog
Dear readers, today it’s with great pleasure I introduce Bob Stewart, a Husband, Father, Man of God, and writer. Today’s post is courtesy of Bob and is entitled:
“Who’s Not Capable?”
Have you ever felt you didn’t have the skills, background, character, or even physical traits to be a leader? Have people assumed you don’t have what it takes to lead without even giving you a chance to see what you can do?
God oftentimes in the Bible used the least likely character to be a leader. One leader in particular was one of the judges – Ehud. God would bring up “judges” or military leaders every time the Children of Israel needed a leader.
So one time God brought up a leader to deliver the Israelites from the Moabites. He brought up Ehud – a left-handed man from the tribe of Benjamin (Judges 3:12-30).
Being left-handed meant one of three things in the Middle East during that time. You were either: 1) slow or stupid, 2) unclean, as left was considered the “restroom cleaning” hand, or 3) evil-minded. Either way, it wasn’t positive.
And the tribe of Benjamin was considered the “low man on the totem pole,” as Benjamin was the youngest son of Jacob. The tribe of Benjamin also had a strong occurrence of left-handed members.
So all was against him going into this opportunity. However, God chose Ehud for a purpose. He was to kill the mighty King Eglon and lead Israel out of the Moabite control.
Ehud’s sword was strapped to the opposite side of his body, so the Moabite King didn’t notice the sword. He thought Ehud was a safe person to meet with him. But Ehud was able to kill King Eglon with the sword in his left hand and free the Israelites.
What does that have to do with us today? Many a time we believe we don’t have what it takes to be a leader when given an opportunity. We have traits that may be perceived as weaknesses, but God can use them as strengths!
I have shared that story over and over with my younger son, as he is smaller than everyone else in his class and is left-handed. Kids used to make fun of him for writing differently in school. I told him this story, and he was so amazed!
Now he considers being left-handed a bonus – a gift from God. And he connects more with me, because I am left-handed as well.
Got Christmas? It’s not for another 2 1/2 months. Who’s got time to focus on Christmas, right?
What if we did have time to focus on Christmas? I mean, not just in December, but more often. Way more often.
“We come to know the true meaning of Christmas when we learn to celebrate it every day”. — unknown
PS. Merry Christmas. 🙂