I am back and ready to did what God has called me to do which is to encourage, support and lend my twenty-some years of homeschooling to you.  My family and I have been on one of life's journeys and I needed, at that time, to do what I had been calling ya'll to do...to give my all to my family... and in doing so, for about 3 months, I needed to stay off the computer and be available to meet the needs of my family.  But, we are back on track and if you want to read more you can go to my other blog http://thehereandafter.blogspot.com/ to read more of what has been happening with my family.

But today is Friday and 3 months ago I promised you that Friday would be "Family Devotion Day" so here it is. Enjoy it together with your children and may God bless you and your family this weekend!

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING A CHILD CAN DO

Did you ever try to think what is the best thing that anyone can ever do?  We can think of many things.  Perhaps we would think first of all about being kind to each other, or about obeying Mom and Dad.  These are very, very important.  We might think about how important it is to eat enough, or to get enough sleep, or to do our school work.  These things are very important also, but there is something else that is the most important of all.

You might be able to guess but let me tell you any way!

The most important thing is to obey God, and do just what He wants us to.  When you obey God, it makes Him very happy and He gives you many lovely things.

He is saving some of His best presents for you.  He will give them to you after a while.  He is saving them for you until the time when you fo up to be with Him in heaven.  How wonderful it is going to be then, if you obey God now.

He likes to give lovely things to children who obey Him.  Can you think of some of these things?  I will tell you one of them and then you can think of others.  One thing He gives obedient children is happiness.  If they obey Him, they are happy. 

What happens if you don't obey God?  Does that make any difference?  Well, what happens when you don't obey your parents?  They must punish you in some way.  God must punish you, too, if you disobey Him.

A Sunday school teacher was talking to the children in her class about obeying God, and she told the children that God's will is to be done on earth just as it is done in heaven.  She asked, "Children, how do you think that God's will is done in heaven?  How do you think that the angels and the happy spirits do the will of God?"

The first child replied, "They do it right away, as soon as they know what God wants them to do."

The second child said, "They do it just as well as they possibly can, because they are doing it for God."

The third child said, "They always do just what God wants them to and don't try to think of other things to do instead."

None of the other children in the class could think of anything else until after a while one little girl put up her hand and said, "Teacher, I think they do it without asking any questions."

Isn't that a good way to do God's will?

Read together from your bibles ACTS 5:17-29

"Trust and obey,

For there's no other way

To be happy in Jesus

But to trust and obey"

AMEN!..