In James 4:13-15 it says "Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit' - yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." The everyday lives of these people were not bad, but in their planning they never acknowledged their dependence on God. We make plans all of the time but do we ever acknowledge God in our plans or depend on Him for the direction we should be going?
I was convicted by these studies and decided that I was going to ask the Lord more about what I should be doing and acknowledge Him and thank Him in the things He allows me to do. So when Jeff called me to see if I wanted to go to the Dodger game, after going back and forth trying to figure out if we should go or not, I asked him, "Maybe we should pray about what the Lord wants us to do?" Jeff decided he would pray and wait until after lunch to make a decision. As I hung up with him, I realized... maybe acknowledging God in whatever we are doing looks different all the time. This time maybe it looks like a prayer of thankfulness with the family before we went into the ballpark, thanking Him for the opportunity and the money to go. So that is what we did. We thought we were getting great seats but turns out they weren't the greatest (see pic below), although we saw a lot of home run balls coming straight for us! We had a great time just being together for the evening, doing something we love to do and recognizing God's blessing in it all.
Our seats hahaha
Oops I cut off Kailee!
After 6 tries we finally got a good picture!
Jake is such a goofball!
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