Following our Leader

When I was a small child, my mother and I had a devotional time together every morning before school. Recently, as my father was preparing to move he gave me one of the books that my mother and I used to read together. We had written the date next to each passage as we had read through the book. 30 years later my mother is now in heaven and my daughters and I are enjoying writing the current date as we work through the same book.

Ironically, I didn’t realize that my childhood devotional book would speak to me so sweetly as an adult. God has moved me several times from reading this book. About a week ago I was praying about being a follower of Jesus when my girls were ready for their devotional time with me. We opened the book and the title read “Following our Leader”. The passage told about how as Christians our call is to follow our leader Jesus by loving. It was complete with the verse “Be followers of God, as His dear children” Ephesians 5:1. It is so incredible how God moves us and touches our lives in such intricate ways.