Spring is Coming!

Yesterday, it was 70 degrees outside. Beautiful day! When Madison came home from school, Sterling helped her ride her bike, and I helped Emma on her tricycle. Sterling and I talked about how wonderful life is for our family living here on Long Island. The church parsonage is beautiful.....a dream house for us, and having all the church property surrounding us, makes us feel like were on a farm kinda......without the animals :)......if that makes any sense. So much land for the girls to explore. It is hard to put into words really, but we just feel like this is the best time of our lives.....and yet there is still so much more to come!
This morning I was reading in Deuteronomy, chapters 7 & 8. It is talking about how God has chosen us, and how He is the faithful God who keeps His covenant for a thousand generations and lavishes His unfailing love on those who love Him and obey His commands.
As I was reading that passage, I could not help but think of my conversation with Sterling just yesterday. About how happy we are, happier than ever before, and how much God has blessed us.
If you keep reading through chapter 8, it speaks about not forgetting who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt. In verse 17 it says "HE did all this so you would never say to yourself, 'I achieved this with my own strength and energy'."
I am not so far along in my walk with God, that I forget where I once was. I remember far more often than I would like actually. I never want to forget where I was, because it reminds me I never want to go back there again.
However, when on the mountain top, it can become easy to forget who carried you up from the valley.
When I STOP, slow down, and ponder on God's grace and how He truly RESCUED me from slavery.....I am Overwhelmed, broken, humbled, speechless, and so aware of my nothingness without Him.
It is so good to be reminded, that we are rescued from the PIT, and that everything in our lives comes from Him alone and is because of Him and for His glory.
I get so caught up in day to day tasks, that I forget what I am here for. I forget who I am serving. I forget the ressurection POWER that saved me. I forget to tap into my energy source. And I slowly begin living for me again. I become casual in my walk.
Does that ever happen to any of you? You get so comfortable in your life and how great you think it is, that you slowly begin living it in your own strength and wisdom.
How good God is to remind us that we can't make it one second without Him and His word.