bread and water

I was listening to a founder of an incredible ministry talk to a Pastor in an interview and he said something that stuck with me. He said that Christ can only use us to the extent that we let Him. We must yield to Christ in order for Him to use us.    God has plans and purposes for each life that He gloriously created in the womb. But some people will never experience what they were created for because they won’t yield to Christ. When you see a yield sign you know that you are supposed to slow down and look to see if anything is coming before you continue down that path. If another car is approaching then you must stop and let the other car go before you continue driving on that road.    We have to do that with the Lord. Like the verse says in Proverbs 3:5-6: “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” It doesn’t say “in some of thy ways” or “only when you aren’t sure

We are in the process of moving out of the apartment on the third floor to a house. We have been in that apartment for almost a year and a half. It’s where we brought our fourth baby home from the hospital.    It had its ups and downs.    It had a pretty tree you could see from the balcony that turned red in the fall. It had a pool the boys could swim in in the summer.    But it didn’t have a yard or a garage or a place to put the boys bikes.  It was interesting having four rough and rowdy boys in a nice apartment complex.    One time our son had a bike wreck and accidentally put a tiny scratch on someone’s truck. We paid that person over $600 so they could get it fixed.  Another time the manager called me and asked the boys to quit doing backflips off the transformer box. (They weren’t allowed to have their trampoline at the apartment.) But they had an outdoor basketball and tennis court and a movie theatre in the lobby. That made for some good church fellowships.