A Birthday Blessing

Moriah Noel,

The blessing you have been to our family cannot be formulated into words.  You dearest, are one of God’s lavish evidences of grace to us.  Your birth brought a bucketful of new roles to our family.  When your daddy delivered you after more than 43 hours of this momma’s hard work, your arrival initiated firsts for every member of our extended family!

 Your sweet, slender fingers wrapped around ours, had announced to the world that there was a new great-great grandmother, 8 great grandparents, 4 grandparents, 4 uncles and 3 aunties.  You are blessed dear to have a legacy of personal relationship with each of your great grandparents, and grandparents! As you continue in your role of paving the way with firsts for our family we pray that God would bless you richly with more of Him daily. 

As my cybermentor for these past seven years posted recently…”Because there is no true happiness apart from holiness, and there is no true holiness apart from knowing what it means to suffer unhappiness.  It’s through suffering unhappiness that God may beckon you into deeper happiness in Him.  Don’t be afraid.  Because the thing is: I don’t want you to get all A’s in life.  I want you to get life.  I want you to get God.

Your birth was such big news for your daddy's home town 

that even the local gas station announced it!

A.W. Tozer said that you can have as much of God as you want.  It’s wild to think about that: How much of God do you really want?  How happy do you really want to be?  Why would you avoid Him and all your joy in Him – when you could hunger for Him and have as much happiness as you want?   What I am trying to tell you is that no matter where you end up, where the road leads:  You can have as much God as you want.  As much joy in Him as you want.  The real believers relentlessly believe that.  The world or circumstances will try to dupe you differently – but it’s a law as irrefutable as gravity itself:  no matter what – as much God as you want.”

 

Is there anything else worth having or wanting?

What will keep you from doing much good – is caring too much what others think.  This isn’t only a phenomenon of teens.  This is often the foolishness of adults too.  What would the world look like if Christians didn’t care about keeping up with the neighbors but about keeping company with Christ.

Moriah, We can hardly contain our excitement for the growth, purpose, guidance and passions that he Lord has blessed you with this past year.  We are praying that in all your pursuits, you would seek Christ first.  The happiest of birthdays to you – daughter and friend.

Love Mom