Sunshine

It is a beautiful sun shiny day, with a gentle breeze blowing, here in the PNW.   Morning worship was absolutely awesome!  We sang some of the old songs about how God's extends His grace to us.  Since our pastor is on vacation the morning message was brought by one of the elders.  Sermon topic "The Real Deal" with scripture reference 2 Corinthians 12.  He shared with us the marks of a genuine follower of Jesus Christ today.  How we are to rely on God's grace in our weakness, to stay humble, refuse to be a financial burden and to show alarm about sin in the church.  Then he asked us 3 questions; 1) Do we rely on God's grace in our weakness? 2) Do we refuse to be a financial burden to others? 3) Is our hearts broken over sin in the church?  Gave us a lot to ponder and pray on.  Awesome sermon!!!

After morning worship my sweetie and I had nothing planned so we came home and had lunch on the patio, he sat in the shade and me in the sun as I love to feel the warmth of the sun on my face.  There is just something about sitting in the sun soaking up those rays that warms a body from the inside out.

2 Corinthians 4:6 tells us; 

"For God , who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has shown in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ."

In other words God puts the sunshine in our soul.  We can't help but glow with the light of Christ as we place our faith and trust in our Savior Jesus Christ for He is our light.  He gives us hope, love, peace and grace.

Think of it this way, the warmth of the sunshine is Jesus smiling down on us giving us His abundant blessings today.