Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Driver's Seat Theme of the Week: Who's at the Controls? Thursday, July 22, 2004
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Key Bible Verse: "For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do what I want" (John 6:38). Bonus Reading:Luke 22:39—46
"Just graduated from college, two friends and I went on a long-planned trip to Europe for the summer. We mostly worked on the farm of friends I'd made two years before.
I was at a youthful crossroads with several options on the horizon. One day, driving my VW bug south through Norway on our way back to Germany after two weeks in the north—one friend beside me, another in the back seat—I found myself reviewing these situations: job, money, schooling, marriage, relationships, ministry, even whether to return home at the end of the summer. I didn't know what was best, even what I wanted to do. After thinking each situation through, I found myself saying, "Here, Lord—I don't know what to with this. I put it into Your hands. Do Your will in this area of my life."
My friends and I carried on our occasional conversations, laughing and talking together. They knew nothing of what was tumbling through my mind and heart. As daylight faded, I felt a lightness come over me. I'd turned each of these concerns over to God. I'd wanted to rid myself of these burdens. I was no longer holding on to them. It felt liberating. [continued 7/23]
—Michael Phillips in Make Me Like JesusAdapted from Make Me Like Jesus (WaterBrook, 2003) by permission.
My Response: Do I see a crossroads ahead? Am I prepared to put it in God's hands?
Thought to Apply: Consecration is handing God a blank sheet to fill in with your name signed at the bottom.
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