"If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!" Matt 7:11 (NASB)

I can't remember the exact day or time, but somewhere in my late adolescence I had an original thought. I was amazed too! It was sort of a theory, synthesized and digested from the things that Jesus said in the gospels. It went like this. "I think that if I focus outward, that is spend my energy caring about God's happiness and the needs of others instead of my own, then God Himself will make sure that the things I need, both physically and emotionally, come to me." OR - "The less I concern myself with my self, the more God will take an active interest in my life." The concept wasn't formulated that fully when it first came and I'm sure I could not have communicated it then with anything like the clarity I can today, but that hypothesis, that theory has proved out time and time again. It's been close to 40 years now since that time and not one thing has happened to change my mind.

I'm not interested in "COVERING MY BASES" or "LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE." I understand that there are godly, wise principles in life to follow and I don't believe that wisdom and faith are opposing concepts. Yet, there have been times when God has asked me to do things that did not fit into any logical or traditionally wise system of decision making. God has proved Himself so many times that I am not afraid to live on the edge. I don't claim to understand everything about how God works, but I know He does, and I know He loves me. Jesus did not come to do His own will, but the Father's. If we abandon our own will and do as Jesus did, then we can expect God to meet us and do for us the same types of things, and care for us just as surely as He did for His only begotten son. The next few stories are wonderful testimony to the keeping, providing and compassionate power and love of God.

Dee