Simply...Living For Him

Some Random Thoughts From This Week

I am reading Mark Cahill’s One Thing You Can’t Do in Heaven and have really been thinking about how I share my faith, or how I lack. Cahill includes this poem in his book:

My friend, I stand in judgment now

And feel that you’re to blame somehow

While on this earth I walked with you day by day

And never did you point the way

You knew the Lord in truth and glory

But never did you tell the story

My knowledge then was very dim

You could have led me safe to him

Though we lived together here on earth

You never told me of your second birth

And now I stand this day condemned

Because you failed to mention him

You taught me many things, that’s true

I called you friend and trusted you

But now I learned, now it’s too late

You could have kept me from this fate

We walked by day and talked by night

And yet you showed me not the light

You let me live, love and die

And all the while you knew I’d never live on high

Yes, I called you friend in life

And trusted you in joy and strife

Yet in coming to this end

I see you really weren’t my friend

Powerful right?

Now I believe that it is God who ultimately lifts the scales from someone’s eyes, and He wakes up a soul to the Truth, yet we are commanded to go and tell. We are commanded to play our part in God’s plan. So often we don’t share the Truth because we are afraid of rejection, yet Jesus suffered the ultimate rejection. We are afraid of what people will think, or losing a friend, but truth is, eternity is a long time to be separated from a friend. If we love people, we must tell them. Tell them the One and Only Truth that will set them free.

On another note, I have also been contemplating simplifying my time. I posed this question the other day on facebook:

How are you simplifying your time these days?

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April 21, 2013 by Karen DeBeus

Karen DeBeus

Join me on my journey to clear the clutter as I am simply living...for Him! I am a homeschooling mom sharing about my faith, family, hobby-farm life, and Jesus. I am also an author and speaker and love sharing my journey with others- and I am all about keeping it real and authentic! Join me as I seek less of this world and more of Jesus! Karen DeBeus is a homeschooling mom learning to live more simply and keep God at the center of it all. She is the author of three best-selling homeschooling books and writes at Simply Living for Him. She speaks nationally at homeschooling conventions and recently was a speaker at the Family Bible Conference in Washington, DC. Her passion is to help others clear the clutter from their lives, seek God first, and to encourage women and families to get in the Word every day. In 2016, she founded the Simply Living for Him Retreat, which is a time of rest and renewal for all women seeking Jesus. She enjoys life on her hobby farm with her husband and four children. Together they are a work-at-home family pursuing a simple life with purpose and, above all, seeking to glorify God in all they do.