It is Yours
My mother went home to be with the LORD, June 21, 2021. She lived in another state, so my husband went with me to empty her home. I must admit it was quite a task. My mother was a child of the Depression; therefore, she believed in saving every newspaper, magazine, and the list goes on. As we emptied the house in order to put it on the market, I brought back with me some of her things. Why am I telling you all this? Because every time I passed her beloved china cabinet I placed in my dining room, I would have to fight back the tears of missing my mom. I wanted to run to the phone to call her to ask how she was doing. But I knew where she was - with the Lord.
I knew she wouldn’t come back even if she was able, but that wouldn’t stop my meltdowns. One day one of our church intercessors called me and asked me to go into my dining room and look at her expensive beautiful china cabinet. She told me to say to my mom’s china cabinet “This cabinet is mine now because my mom wanted me to have it!” As I spoke those words I began to cry tears of healing. I still miss my mom, but not in the same way as before.
In thinking about my china cabinet, I am reminded that the Bible has numerous promises geared for you and me. Just like I verbally claimed my mom’s cabinet, we can claim the Word of God as our very own. There are over three-hundred scriptures that belong to us because the Lord’s shed blood on Calvary made it ours for the asking. Elohim is the one who began it all. God, Almighty Creator, reveals himself in the beginning, Genesis 1:1-10, 31.
Many years ago, I taught this song in Sunday school: “Every Promise in the Book is Mine.” We can take the blessings and promises found in the Bible as our own as we celebrate faith and hope in Jesus.
I knew she wouldn’t come back even if she was able, but that wouldn’t stop my meltdowns. One day one of our church intercessors called me and asked me to go into my dining room and look at her expensive beautiful china cabinet. She told me to say to my mom’s china cabinet “This cabinet is mine now because my mom wanted me to have it!” As I spoke those words I began to cry tears of healing. I still miss my mom, but not in the same way as before.
In thinking about my china cabinet, I am reminded that the Bible has numerous promises geared for you and me. Just like I verbally claimed my mom’s cabinet, we can claim the Word of God as our very own. There are over three-hundred scriptures that belong to us because the Lord’s shed blood on Calvary made it ours for the asking. Elohim is the one who began it all. God, Almighty Creator, reveals himself in the beginning, Genesis 1:1-10, 31.
Many years ago, I taught this song in Sunday school: “Every Promise in the Book is Mine.” We can take the blessings and promises found in the Bible as our own as we celebrate faith and hope in Jesus.