A Word for Our Arbor Family
First, I want to say, "Thank You, God!" for all those that have been participating during these 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting. Every time we do this, I'm always amazed at how much the Lord does in me. I hope that it is the same for you.
In reading Max Lucado's Anxious for Nothing, I've tried to keep up with the coordinating chapters in the Young Reader's Edition. Yes! There is a version for your kiddos, if you'd like to go through this study with them. It's really great! The topic of each chapter is the same as the adult version. For chapter 9, even the title ("Think About What You Think About") is exactly the same.
In order to evaluate the things that I'm dwelling on, I first need to be able to see it all correctly. In the Young Reader Edition, Max offers this analogy:
"When I was in the 5th grade, I didn't know I needed glasses. I assumed my classmates saw what I saw when they looked at the blackboard...I assumed they saw the baseball when I did, at the last minute, with barely enough time to swing... I had poor vision. But I didn't know it. I had never known anything else... [When] I was handed my first pair of glasses. Talk about a game changer!... Suddenly I could see."
Before Christ came into my life, I was "Blind. Unable to see God's love. Unable to see the truth of salvation in Jesus. But then Jesus restores [my] sight." And as He continually restores my sight, to see things His way, I'm able to more accurately evaluate and "...Fix [my] thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. [And] Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise." (Philippians 4:8)
And now, to an even greater depth, I know what it means to sing, "Amazing grace! How sweet the sound / That saved a wretch; like me! / I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind, but now I see."
In reading Max Lucado's Anxious for Nothing, I've tried to keep up with the coordinating chapters in the Young Reader's Edition. Yes! There is a version for your kiddos, if you'd like to go through this study with them. It's really great! The topic of each chapter is the same as the adult version. For chapter 9, even the title ("Think About What You Think About") is exactly the same.
In order to evaluate the things that I'm dwelling on, I first need to be able to see it all correctly. In the Young Reader Edition, Max offers this analogy:
"When I was in the 5th grade, I didn't know I needed glasses. I assumed my classmates saw what I saw when they looked at the blackboard...I assumed they saw the baseball when I did, at the last minute, with barely enough time to swing... I had poor vision. But I didn't know it. I had never known anything else... [When] I was handed my first pair of glasses. Talk about a game changer!... Suddenly I could see."
Before Christ came into my life, I was "Blind. Unable to see God's love. Unable to see the truth of salvation in Jesus. But then Jesus restores [my] sight." And as He continually restores my sight, to see things His way, I'm able to more accurately evaluate and "...Fix [my] thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. [And] Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise." (Philippians 4:8)
And now, to an even greater depth, I know what it means to sing, "Amazing grace! How sweet the sound / That saved a wretch; like me! / I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind, but now I see."