Eleven Years, Forty Less One

Life is going on, yet time and tide waits for none. With all the daily chores and events of life going on and on, it seems as though one day I just woke up from sleep to discover that I am a married man with three children with a blessed God-gifted perfect partner for eleven years, and myself forty less one year younger! Its hard to believe the fact that I am what I am today. I can fully agree with brother Paul when he said in 1 Corinthians 15:10, But by the grace of God I am what I am; and His grace unto me did not turn out to be in vain, but, on the contrary, I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I but the grace of God which is with me.

I told my wife, all these years of marriage life refreshes us so much that I still feel we are still dating one another. She simply replied, "Still dating with three children?" Our love and oneness has become all the more fresher and newer by the year. Sometimes I still feel as though I am a young brother and having a relationship with my wife and enjoying family life with my children. The Lord has wonderfully and beautifully work out everything good for us. I am running out of words to thank the Lord enough for His sovereignty over our lives.

The only thing I feel I ever did or perhaps, are still doing is, I learn to submit to God's headship and amen all His sayings and doings either directly or indirectly through the members of Hs Body. What a blessed life to be able to learn this important lesson of life. When one submits fully to the Father's wise bestowment, the Father's presence and blessing always follow. As long as I submit to the will of the Father, I am, and will always be the beneficiary of all the heavenly, spiritual, and even physical blessings He has reserved for His beloved children. I humbly feel I am blessed to be such a beloved child of a loving Father.

Even today as I turn thirty nine years, I reckon about half of my life has transpired, if the Lord delays His coming and graces me with longevity. I have no words to thank the Lord enough for all that He has been to me; so sweet, so dear, so caring, and so loving. Even my intimate fellowship with my beloved wife is sweeter and dearer; my prayer time with the Lord is so enjoyable that I received instant light concerning a matter of my further pursuit of academic qualification that has been directionless for many years now.

This morning, our three little children the Lord blessed us with, greeted me with a birthday cake right after our daily morning revival. My wife and them together secretly baked the cake yesterday; so sweet! They all sang a Happy Birthday song for me and made me cut cake.

Some subjective experiences are; inwardly, I left certain weight of burden that clouded my sky for the past years have been lifted up. I felt the Lord is leading me to a greater height of experiencing and enjoying Him. Besides, officially some official works that bogged me down the past few days were just solved in no time today itself. And overall, in the weekly coworkers' fellowship it so happened that I had to share an entire message on the Lord's ultimate move and His ultimate recovery. I take this as a message specially for me: God's ultimate move to fulfill His eternal intention is to have Christ as life in us, flowing in us, saturating and permeating us, and making us fit to be built up into His Body for His expression; as members of the Body of Christ expressed as the golden lampstand; this is the preparation of the bride, and this is the Lord's ultimate move, and this is His recovery, and this is the message to me, for me, and the saints!

That's how I enjoyed the day, eleven years and forty less one.

Lord, I consecrate my life and my family to You afresh for Your ultimate move in Your ultimate recovery. Grace me and my family; gain our family to serve Jehovah as God-man family, fruitfully and faithfully, all the days of our lives. Amen.