Turning Forty-Eight

Today, my wife turned forty-eight! The best thing I could wish for her is to pray and bless her with the word of God. A few days ago, the Lord gave me some Bible verses for her. I felt these verses perfectly fit the blessing God has bestowed upon our family. Therefore, I made a card using one of these verses for my wife.

For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God; it is you whom Jehovah your God has chosen from among all the peoples which are upon the face of the earth to be a people for His personal treasure. (Deuteronomy 7:6, RecVer)

And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your fresh oil, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock, on the land which He swore to your fathers to give you. You will be more blessed than all other peoples; there will not be any barren male or female among you or among your animals. (Deuteronomy 7:13-14, RecVer)

And it is Jehovah who has today declared you to be a people for His personal treasure, even as He promised you; and that you will keep all His commandments; And that He will set you high above all the nations which He has made, for praise and for a name and for honor; and that you will be a holy people to Jehovah your God, as He has spoken. (Deuteronomy 26:18-19, RecVer)

Coincidentally today too, we had two families visiting us from the South. So, instead of family time outside, we had a time of lovefest with two new families from the South along with some saints in the church in Gurugram. Meanwhile, we had a time of fellowship with the families. The two occasions of hosting guests and also thanking the Lord for another new year were enjoyed together at the same time. Now and then, we have been granted such occasions to enjoy the Lord together with the saints in the church life. Thank the Lord for the Christian life and the church life!

According to the Lord's promises, we have been the Lord's personal treasure, Who has chosen us to bless us. This specific blessing of the womb has been very gracious of the Lord in our marriage life. Before we got married, my wife-to-be then, openly fellowshipped about me not becoming a father if I married her. But my innate reply then was, if the Lord blessed us so, we would become parents, and our marriage life is in the Lord's hand. Nineteen years have elapsed and today the Lord has blessed us with three blessed children! Therefore, the Lord's promise, "He will also bless the fruit of your womb" has been truly fulfilled! And the other promises will also be fulfilled in time as it has already been fulfilled now one by one, "the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your fresh oil, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock, on the land which He swore to your fathers to give you. You will be more blessed than all other peoples."

Living a life in the Lord is a blessed life. Learning to trust the Lord for everything is a blessed life. What a loss could it have been if we had not trusted the Lord and had not followed the Lord denying our natural choices? The Lord has been showing mercy upon us, especially in our married life, and has blessed us richly with all the blessings that I can ever imagine. All the blessings both spiritual and physical we have been receiving these days have all been testimonies to the Lord's faithfulness in His word. Having been graced to learn to trust in Him, obey Him, and follow Him, we have been enjoying the Lord's blessing!

From the very beginning of our marriage life, we have been praying this prayer to the Lord that the Lord would preserve us and grace us to be one with Him and one with one another, and to love Him and love one another. The Lord has indeed answered this prayer.

Lord, continue to bless our marriage life and the family You blessed us with, Your personal treasure!