What question are you saving for God?

I am thoroughly enjoying a book I bought close to a year ago titled, "In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day" by Mark Batterson. We live miles and miles from a Christian Bookstore and so I shop at CBD.com often. This title caught my eye for this was the exact title of a sermon preached in our home church. This is one of those books that you want your hi-liter and time to chew over some things that the author brings out. One that you will pick up more than once in your life time for there is some meat in here to chew on.

Yesterday afternoon something literally jumped off the page and deep into my heart, "We all have questions we've been saving for God, don't we?"

I want to pitch that out there to you as well. What do you think you will ask God when you come face to face with Him for eternity?

For me after just a moment or two of reflecting I thought how strange Lord, something that I've wanted to ask You for a long time really no longer matters to me. I hadn't realized how much He had healed me in an area. There was a time that I so desperately wanted to know why He chose my exact parents to parent me. I come from a highly dysfunctional family with very little love splashed onto me. I remember being in my early 20's and hearing for the first time from my Mom's lips that she loved me. I know that she did, I just didn't hear it much. I saw my friends and how their parents loved them and encouraged them and acted like they even liked them. I became a people pleaser at a very early age and I still struggle with that today. I want to please God more than anyone or anything and so there are times that it comes with a cost.

The crazy thing Sisters and Brothers is that today I'm thankful for my early home life. It allows me to help others that may have come from a similar environment or little one's that may be in that type of an environment today. What a HUGE window of opportunity to **pour myself out from having walked those experiences to help others know that God is good and that He is sovereign.

Genesis 50:20 Message: "Don't you see, you planned evil against me but God used those same plans for my good, as you see all around you right now—life for many people."

I came across a quote not long ago and I've attached it to my current e-mails for the past couple of weeks but I believe it speaks volumes for where God has me today, and where God may be asking you to go as well. The author is unknown to me, here is the quote: The Christ who gave up His life for what you did will ask what you did for Him.

So not only do I ask you today, What question are you SAVING for God, but also, what are you doing for Him out of pure love and respect?

Father God, I thank You for loving me. I thank You for Your word that confirms what my heart is being stirred to. I thank You for the hurting women and hurting children You bring into my path. That Your love would be splashed onto them from what You, yourself, have poured into me. Father, I ask that You would comfort them, and bring such a healing that their question will no longer be a question but become a healing statement of TRUTH. A vessel that is usable for KINGDOM purposes. Father, continue to give me a heart of compassion that I would embrace and show mercy. Lord, turning evil to good. In the sweet name of Christ Jesus, Amen.

Do you notice that GOOD is prevalent, and evil is overshadowed in this drawing?

**2 Corinthians 1:3-4 NIV "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God."

This is one of the very first scriptures that I ever memorized not knowing how God would use me, but that there lies a promise here...will we believe and accept His comfort to then comfort others as well?

**Philippians 2:16-18 NIV "as you hold out the word of life—in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing. 17But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. 18So you too should be glad and rejoice with me."

**Philippians 2:14-18 Message "14-16Do everything readily and cheerfully—no bickering, no second-guessing allowed! Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God. Carry the light-giving Message into the night so I'll have good cause to be proud of you on the day that Christ returns. You'll be living proof that I didn't go to all this work for nothing. 17-18Even if I am executed here and now, I'll rejoice in being an element in the offering of your faith that you make on Christ's altar, a part of your rejoicing. But turnabout's fair play—you must join me in my rejoicing. Whatever you do, don't feel sorry for me."