Ezekiel 14-15

Read some good stuff in Ezekiel 14-15. Instead of commenting on it I will share an article I wrote for our newsletter.

Nancy and the kids have a game they play in my house called - ONE MORE! Nancy will ask one of the kids for a kiss and they will give her one and then she will say - ONE MORE! The right response is to give her ONE MORE kiss and then she will say ONE MORE! This game can go on for a LOOOONNNNGG time.
The heart of that game is love. Nancy wants the kids to know that she loves them so much that one isn’t enough. And she wants them to know that two or three or four isn’t enough either. Just ONE MORE would be enough.
It is like the Diamond Rio song, One More Day. It is a song that talks about someone losing someone they love and how they would give anything for just ONE MORE day with them. They would pay more attention to them, hold them more, be with them more.
This whole week I have been ONE MORE-ing God in the morning. At our elders non-retreat we talked about a desire we each had to add worship to our daily life. I jumped all over it and have been totally blown away by how refreshing it is and how it helps keeps my heart and mind settled during the whole day. On Tuesday I started doing a little worship and ended up 2 hours later. Today, I was just going to worship for a few minutes and then it turned into about an hour.
Now this isn’t to toot my own horn, but to remind you that God is worth ONE MORE! He is worth ONE MORE try, ONE MORE minute or hour or day, ONE MORE percent, ONE MORE conversation, ONE MORE whatever. One day this life will be over and for those of us that walk with Jesus that will be a good thing. But I think many of us will look back and think, “Man, if I could just have ONE MORE day back there I would do it differently.” Why not live differently today and give God ONE MORE of whatever will make Him smile.

Love,
Michael