It’s recess!  The playground is full of choices: the ‘merry-go-round, the teeter-totter, the swings, and the jungle-gyms, are all waiting!

But,  life is not a playground and we are no longer in school with simple choices.  Our daily choices  are  very critical.    Every thought, every action, and every decision, affects us, and who we are.   With little thought to any of it, we are simply existing!.

This is not Gods will.   Gods will is that we each come to Him, to know Him, so that we may know ourselves!  Then His Holy Spirit reveals to us all that is good and beautiful and pleasing to the Father.

When we obey,  we have found who we really are, and who we are allows us to live, and live  life to its fullest.   The joy that God desires for us then fulfills us.    Then both He and we, are pleased!

Faithfulness is essential to life!    It is purpose, and understanding.  It completes us!   It is not people,  it is God; the love of God the Father of us all,  that is everything!   When you come to know the Father through Jesus Christ His Son then you have achieved life!

Faith is not a carousel or a Merry-go-round, or any of the other toys on the playground.   It is core.   It is inside of us.   It is waiting to be fostered, and loved!   Much like the ‘mustard seed’ Our Lord speaks of…the smallest of seeds, but the largest of plants when planted and cared for.   So, it is with faith.

Two ladies  were speaking of preparing for a funeral.      One lady,  was asking her friend  questions about who she had officiate at her mothers funeral.    As the conversation unfolded, and the lady  speaking was saying,  all  the  churches she had’ try-ed’,  were  the same.     The other lady only listened and did not offer any advice.

This is the misconception of many, that the difference is in the Pastors.    When the difference is in knowing Jesus!   They  are  there because of Jesus.   They profess because of Jesus.   However, the Jesus we all speak of is a relationship .  His Spirit lives.  His love lives on!   The desire to know the LORD is in the heart.   The craving of Christ is the thirsting of the soul.   Nothing will fill the thirsting of the soul!   Only the LORD himself!

You can try a multitude of church’s!    No matter whether the preacher preaches the best sermon ever!   Only Jesus when invited into the heart, and is visited daily, in prayer, reading of scripture, and the applying of His commandments, does the growth occur!  Otherwise it remains a ‘mustard seed’  with no fertile ground!

Plant your ‘mustard seed!’     Tend to it daily, so it will not be  choked off by ‘weeds’ of sin.   Instruction is within the Word of God, the HOLY BIBLE!    Apply it!   Then fulness of life will be complete.

Book of Luke: Chapter 17 verses 5-6  Jesus Speaks on increasing faith:

5)”The apostles said to the LORD, “Increase our faith,” 6) and he answered: “If you had faith the size of a mustard seed,  you could say to this sycamore, ‘Be uprooted and transplanted into the sea,’ and it would obey you.”

Book of Matthew Chapter 10 verses 38-40 Jesus Speaks

38)”He who will not take up his cross and come after me is not worthy of me.   39)He who seeks only himself brings himself to ruin, whereas he who brings himself  to nought for me discovers who he is.”   40) ” He who welcomes you welcomes me, and he who welcomes me welcomes him who sent me.”