Stringing Pearls

God has blessed us with our lives here on earth. He's given us free will in which we can choose Him, choose to honor Him, rejoice in Him, praise Him for all things, or we can even choose to live apart from Him. Our entire lives are spent making choices. Who are we making them for and who is our focus; ourselves or God? What are we doing with each precious moment that He's given us? Paul tells us in Phillipians 4:4 to, "Rejoice in the Lord always!" Regardless of our circumstances, despite potential difficulties, God desires that we praise Him in all things because each day is a gift from Him. Moments pass and fall just as sand through an hourglass. It is up to us to rejoice and be thankful for each precious one. As we do, God will honor our praise. He has given us salvation, freedom, life and has set us free from every bondage and captivity. Regardless of life's circimstances, we will always have reason to rejoice.

As we rejoice and thank Him for each day, we are taking that moment of time, that one grain of sand, and, rather than letting it fall, wasted, through the hourglass of our lives, we are offering it to Him. It is a beautiful gift to God which He honors by turning it into a pearl. It becomes a moment of time in which we chose to put God at the center and focus of our lives and rejoice in Him. As you look back on your life, what do you see? Have life's moments been falling, wasted, through the hourglass of time, or have you rejoiced in your God regardless of how you felt? Choose to rejoice in all things, to praise the Creator for His goodness, grace and love daily. As we do this, we will find that God has graciously given us a string of precious pearls, each one strung around a God honoring string of time in which we chose to rejoice in our Savior King.