Red Birds, Rainbows & Rubies

After posting about Mrs. Evans the other day I got to thinking about a few of her favorite things.... She LOVED Red Birds, Rainbows and Rubies! Yes these are temporal things but we can have favorite things to enjoy!

What are some of your favorite things?

I know for me it's white fluffy clouds, the changing of colors in fall, Red Birds and Roses just to name a few. I took a few of things and made them and "I love you" from God. I don't see Red Birds all the time but when I do I not only think about Mrs. Evans but that God loves me and the little birds.

When I see a white fluffy cloud, I think of the pureness of God and how our lives should be Christ like and we should have a perfectly white clean slate. Which in Heaven we do because God has forgiven my, your, sins and buried them in the deepest see. When you ask the Lord about this or that, he replies, "What sins are you talking about? I don't remember them any more!" Isn't that a wonderful thing!!!

Fall, WOW!! Red, Yellow, Orange, Green, Brown all over the place just showing the beauty of God and his handiwork.

Roses well that is just my favorite flower they can be red, yellow, white if it's a Rose I love it!! They don't have a particular meaning for me except the beauty at the long stem of thorns. As I am typing this I just though a rose is at the long end of thorns but yet it's beautiful and full of fragrance. That's how our lives should be yes we have the thorns of life but our fragrance as Christians should be sweet and savory to the Lord. After all we are his children and we are to live Christ like. So, friend, what are a few of your favorite things and really think about it as far as why they are your favorite. If you'd like to share them with us I'd love to read it in the comments.

Phil 3:13 " Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,"

There's not a particular verse I could find on "favorite things" but there were lots of verse on things. This is one that I've always enjoyed and thought I'd share at the end of this post. The things we have to leave behind won't matter in the end, it's our treasures that are laid up heaven and reaching for those things before us.

So even though we have our favorite things remember our most "favorite" things should be what we are laying up in Heaven. The crowns of soul winning, of faithfulness, of obedience, of loving others, of serving the Lord and to the best of our ability being Christ like.  Just a few thoughts for us to think on.