I am so excited about this...I am about to burst!
OK...call me strange....you will not be the first one!
I attended a study on John the Baptist a few weeks ago. It has been on my mind...I have been drawn BACK to his story repeatedly. It was bugging me...."Why, Lord, am I stuck on this?" I asked.
John the Baptist was the forerunner for Jesus Christ. Foretelling the coming of the Messiah.
OK....you knew that...so...what is the big deal?
While I was studying Isiah 40:3, the same words are used that John spoke in Mathew 3:3.
It Reads: A voice of one calling: "In the dessert prepare the way for the Lord: make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God."
On the opposite page, of my very marked up Bible, I had underlined the words in Isaiah 38:19 ..The living, the living -they praise you,as I am doing today; fathers (and mothers!) tell their children about your faithfulness.
So....why am I about to explode.....I AM a FORERUNNER, kind of like John (without eating the locust and dressed in animal skins, but I DO eat honey and have wild hair many days... add my new zebra sweater and I am close!)
I, as a mom, can be a "forerunner" and tell my children about Jesus. Day after day, I can remind them about the ONE, the Savior of mankind. In the midst of the dessert, the wilderness of this world. Repeating to them stories about God's faithfulness and preparing their hearts for the Day of the Lord!
God has given you and I such awesome roles to play in this life.
Ye-haw......I am so excited I am going to go have a spoon full of honey!!
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