Like our Inheritance

Alright folks! I'm back again and so excited to see what God will do this coming semester! I think this is the first time in my life that I ever wanted school to start so badly! I know that God will continue to take us from glory to glory and it's so exciting I can hardly wait!!!! Prayers are appreciated from friends and family across the world. :)

I've only been back for a few days and already I'm being affirmed by God and others of the amazing things that are up ahead! Just today I was having lunch with a friend to catch up on what has been going on each other's lives for the past two months we haven't talked to each other. And It was just such a blessing to hear what God is doing in her life and her family's. I was very encouraged for sure.

                Then for some random reason we talked about the card that they gave me at the beginning of last semester. This card allowed me to get discounts at many restaurants and other various places outside of campus. I had it all along, I carried it in my wallet, I knew it gave me discounts but I didn't know for what places and where. Then at the end of last semester I found out that it gave discounts to A LOT of the places we went to often! All that time I could have gotten discounts at so many places. Talk about saving money! But the thing is, I didn't know about it. I didn't know how to use that card, or where to use it... Then it got us thinking about the sermon at church this week. Where our pastor talked about God's word being our inheritance and how important it is to hold on to our Father's words. Then I realized that in a way that card represented our inheritance. But because I didn't know where to use it or how to use it, I missed out on a lot. Just like our inheritance in God's word. Most of the time we don't even know what He has given us or how to use what He has given us. Often times we miss out on so many things because of ignorance. I find myself thinking about that lately.... do we read our Bible as a check list in the morning, or do we truly seek out what's going on in His heart. Last year I learned that the more we get to know God the more we get to know who we are. Just a little something to think about.

So are we honestly missing out on God's gifts for us because we are just doing the same thing everyday to please God then cross it off our to-do-list? He has so much in store for us yet we just don't know about it.