“Birthdays”
“Let me tell you what God said next. He said, "You're my son, and today is your birthday. What do you want? Name it: Nations as a present? Continents as a prize?”
(Psalm 2:7-8 from THE MESSAGE)
Dear family of friends,
Celebrating a birthday each year can be a great time for family and friends to gather together and bless. Bless the one whom the Lord has given another year to share his or her life with us. What fun!
I love birthdays. Even the many ones that come past 29 - which some seem to forget what their math grade school teacher taught them when it comes to the next number! Just having that special day that YOU are given notice to in a unique way is great. What a joy that is! I know it gives our Father tremendous joy, as He continually gives life to new and old.
The verse I shared with this Ahava Love Letter certainly reads different in The Message than in the New American Standard Bible I normally read, or even the Complete Jewish Bible which I like to also meditate on. Here the Lord God is asking if this person wants the nations as a present, and the continents as a prize? Can you imagine One that big, being able to give you this? I love the WalMart and the Movies 10 ($2 shows!) gift cards, but to be asked if you want a nation as a present? How awesome is that???!!
Love for His people – that ahava (Hebrew) love that Yeshua (Jesus) can only put in your heart, makes my heart burst with emotion when I dwell on this. Having a godly compassion and desire to see the peoples, the tribes and nations come to know Him as the Savior He is, has become the one motivating factor in my life that really drives me to push forward for another year. Being persistent in doing the daily stuff, to get you further along the path you are on in fulfilling your destiny, is enough for me, as each birthday comes again.
Being grateful to parents, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, relatives, longtime friends, and work family, for the love they express on your special day, is certainly a special treat. Much appreciation is to be given for those who do express their love to you.
Amazement for the Lord’s gift to us – for life itself – and then for blessing us with opportunities, open doors, and expanded relationships in other nations, is also a great thing to behold and to give thanks for. This year, and every year while I am still on this planet, I am rejoicing in the fact that our Messiah and King is offering you and I the nations as a gift, as a prize for enduring the race He has set before each of us, as we press on in His purposes and realize His promises.
Make your birthday milestones count each year. Keep the flame of love for His people and all the nations in your heart – to bless, curse not, and see His Kingdom come.
I know I am!
Ahava to my family of friends,
Steve Martin
Founder
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Ahava Love Letter #87 “Birthdays” ©2013 Steve Martin
Date: In the year of our Lord 2013 (11/22/13 Friday at 5:30 am in Charlotte, NC). The day before my 59th birthday!
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