A Child After My Own Heart

I finally broke down on another thing... We have had the same refrigerator since we moved into our 1st house in 1995. It has been through more moves than most people do in their entire lives - I believe 7, but I am sure that Julie will correct me if I'm wrong.

Just to clarify, I didn't COMPLETELY break down - I have a great wife and she is as frugal most of the time as I am (most of you just call me cheap, but I take it as a compliment - thanks) I just couldn't bring myself to replace a perfectly good, working refrigerator (Yes, its white and all our other appliances are black - my saving grace (insert excuse) has been that the water cooler sits right next to it and its white too). As Julie put it last night "I know this has not been on the top of your priority list". So, out of the blue yesterday she called me at work and said, "Uh, I saw a refrigerator on Craig's list that's only a year old - Do you want to go take a look at it?" To which I correctly responded something along the line of, "Sure sweetie, I'd love to do that for you." - while thinking to myself, did ours finally break down?

We got the new (new to us) refrigerator and save a couple hundred dollars. So tonight Noah tells Julie at bedtime - "You know mom, you didn't NEED a new refrigerator, you just WANTED a new one " (this one of my favorite phrases while walking through the Wal-mart toy aisle - that and "Ok, well add that to your birthday list and we'll see" and "Ok, well you better save up your money". Way to go kiddo! I'm proud of you.

Proverbs 22:6-7 (New International Version)

6 Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it.

7 The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Finally Gave In to the pressure

I really hate being bullied - Blogger has slowly made it more and more difficult to sign in and use the old blogger - I finally pulled the trigger and migrated to the new blogger tonight. Change is not always a good thing. Not sure if this will really have any affect on my blogging habits...

What if God went on vacation??

I was reading this morning in Psalm 104 and for some reason the thought came to me, what if God went on vacation? Really, what if he just said, hey I'm checking out for a couple days, you guys fend for yourselves and let me know how that's working for you. Sometimes its so easy to sit back and think of all the technological advances of man and think we can do anything - I mean really, what did God have to do with putting a man on the moon, right? (except making the moon, and the man who went to the moon, and the man who designed the rocket that sent Apollo to the moon, etc). Or medical advances and technology, or whatever else we want to take credit for today.

So while I was reading about God being the one who pours water out of streams to feed the animals, (PS 104:10 ff) I thought - well, we haven't figured out that one yet. How can we create good ol H2O? And without it, no food for animals, crops for food, and pretty soon everything ceases exist because the entire food chain dies off.

Oh and it sure would be cold tomorrow if God didn't cause the sun to rise (Matthew 5:45). I recall the news report I saw last week about the huge increase in the price of citrus and avocados because of 1 week of freezing weather in California- what if God let it freeze all year or all across the U.S. or the whole world?
Or what if he dried up the oil in the ground... Oh, yea, I guess we forgot that he makes that too (and, no we haven't figured out how to make that either) - our country and most of the world would soon come to a grinding halt - no planes, trains or automobiles.
Or what about the cows that give us milk (can you imagine having to use milk substitute on your cereal, and who could think of a chocolate shake made out of imitation ice cream?? YUK!)

What about God's control over all nature... Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami's, hurricanes.
PS 104:32 32 "He looks at the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smoke."

He sends rain, snow and wind, and causes then them to stop.

What an awesome and unfathomable God who created all things and sustains all things! I hope I'm not around when he goes on vacation :)

You should really read through Psalm 104 today.