"So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom."
(Psalm 90:12)
1. We can trust the character and love of the Father in heaven to surpass
that of the best earthly father we have ever known or can imagine.
2. God still controls all the riches of earth and heaven. As a child of the King,
we are not to think poverty. His promise to each of us: if you give of yourself,
your time, your material resources to others, I will open the windows
of heaven and pour down My blessing upon you.
3. God wants us to use all our mind, along with our emotions and will, to love
and serve Him. Therefore we need have no fear about where Truth will lead us.
He is still out ahead of the greatest scholars or scientists or theologians.
4. It was God who thought up romance in the first place. He alone, at the
center of the man-woman relationship, can give to physical attraction the
lustre, the idealism, the romance, the durability of which we dream.
5: Jesus came to earth to show us the Father's will. He who created the
incredible human body still heals today, but not as a divine magician.
We need to seek His way, His timing, and the lessons
He wants us to learn along the way.
6. When life caves in, we are to seek God in our problem.
God has a plan for every life by which He will bring good out of evil.
7. We should never hesitate to try the impossible. God does have a special
work for us to do in the world. Should this involve a big dream, we must
believe that the bigger the dream, and the more loving and unselfish it is,
the greater will be God's blessing on it.
8. God has special promises and provision for all those single parents
who must rear children alone. We are not to clutch our children to ourselves.
What we hold too tightly, we can drive away or break. When we give our
children up to God, He will eventually give them back to us.
9. Since God made us for companionship, loneliness is not His plan for us.
But there is a price to be paid in seeking God's remedy, not ours.
This includes a decision to give up self-pity, the determination not to
compromise honor and purity and idealism, and the willingness to let
Him fill our heart's lonely places with His love which then can spill
out into loving concern for others.
10. God is forever in the repair and restoration business. When we are
willing to be taught by Him and to make Him the center of the new home,
He will produce love and harmony and joy as He fits together the
pieces of two broken households.
11. Husbands and wives are basically incompatible. Parents are incompatible
with their children. God made us all different. That's why home is His classroom
for molding and shaping us into mature people.
12. God uses children and grandchildren to keep older people flexible.
When anyone of us has a painful experience that our mind cannot equate
with a loving God, there is this remedy: "I want You and Your presence,
Lord, even more than I want understanding. I choose You."
When we ask this, He then gives peace and illumination as His gift.
"Life Principles"
From the book,
Meeting God At Every Turn
A Personal Family Story
(1980)
Catherine Marshall LeSourd
(1914-1983)
Best-selling American Christian author
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