For Such a Time as This...

      Yes, I have changed the name of this blog (and some other things). I thought the first of the year would be a good time to do it, though I've been thinking about it for a while now. The blog address has always been myfathersgirl, so I thought it would be fitting to change the name and have them both the same. I still believe God has put each of us here...right now...for something only we were meant to do; His special plan for each one of us within the body of Christ, that no one else would do quite the same way. He has put us here...

"For Such A Time As This"

 

As His royal daughters

He placed us here today

To be a light of hope

In a world that's gone astray

 

Not to hide in silence

Secluded from the crowd

But out among the people

Wearing faith out loud

 

He's promised us His presence

No matter where we go

His Spirit dwells within us

His power ours to know

 

His Truth in us stands ready

To counter every lie

The destroyer has been preaching

To the people passing by

 

We hold in us the answers

Asked by dying men

And knowledge of the only One

Who saves the world from sin

 

Will we embrace our destiny

Or His calling will we miss?

Let's have no doubt He's chosen us

For such a time as this!

 

©2010 By Charlotte Foster

 

(“And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14)

 

Please continue to join me here as I share my life with you and hopefully you will see in me something of my Father. I desire more than anything else to live my life in a way that people will see I am My Father's Girl.

      The Mighty God of the universe, creator of all, calls us to come to Him through His Son Jesus Christ, and be His children. Adopted into His family and dearly loved.

...but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” Romans 8:15


Do you know Him as Father? He loves you!

In His grace,
Charlotte

New Year - Are you picking up where you left off?

Vapor

...whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow.

For what is your life?

It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

James 4:13-15

 

 

The vapor...mist, moved in quietly this morning.

 

 

Covering the hills behind our house...the trees.

 

An hour later it picked up and moved out...gone.

 

 

It's hard to think of life as being like vapor, but the Bible says it is.

My mirror says it is.

Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,

And my age is as nothing before You;

Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah
Psalm 39:4-6

 

If life is truly a vapor, let us live each day of this new year

and every year beyond, to the fullest...

 

for the One who trades our fleeting days here 

in exchange for eternity forever with Him.

 

Let's spread out and cover some ground!

A Song of Praise

 

     He sat there on the grape vine singing his song. The overripe grapes still hanging on the vine, free for the taking. The Bluebirds had their fill and left just moments before he landed, now it was his turn to eat.

      I used to watch the birds more often. Busyness has crowded them out of my time and replaced the watching with working. But there are things within the working that are worth watching...and there are songs being sung there too. People being fed, blessings being picked from the vine of God's love; daily manna feeding His children just as surely as He feeds the birds. (Matt. 6:26)

      It's not so much the watching in life that matters, but the seeing. Not merely watching the happenings around us but seeing God revealed in them, working in and through them. Touching lives, providing nourishment, and listening patiently for our songs of praise to rise up as "thank yous" for His many blessings. For eyes to look upon the fruit growing on the vine and acknowledge that His hand is opened to us.

      So much of the time I think we see what isn't there...what we don't have, when God has poured into our lives blessing upon blessing. Are we watching days go by or are we seeing all that He is doing within each moment? If we intentionally look, we will see.

      Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, but really, today is thanksgiving, yesterday was thanksgiving...and every day! Our lives should be a song of praise to Him from where ever we sit ; on the vine, the couch, or office chair, as we reach out to take the abundance he offers us. The birds know this, and He has made us so much greater than birds.

IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS

FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD

IN CHRIST FOR YOU.

1 Thess. 5:18