"Getting up in the morning"

Did you know that getting up in the morning should be a joy? That means we are still alive.

Being alive means we can do something for someone else or tell someone else something

good.

Here is a story about two men in the same hospital room. The one by the wall could not get out of bed, he had to lay on his back all day long. The man by the window could sit up an hour a day to help drain his lungs. The man by the window would spend that hour describing to the other man what he saw and heard.

Out side was beautiful; birds singing, ducks swimming in the lake, beautiful flowers planted along the lake and around the trees and a beautiful rose garden just off to the left. A fountain near the lake drew birds to bathe and the perfect grass all freshly cut.

One day the man by the window died and the man by the wall ask if he could be moved by the window. The nurse moved him and he ask her: Where is all the beauty the other fellow told me about? there is nothing but a wall to look at.

The nurse told him that the man was blind and deaf, he could only see through his mind and imagine what the birds sound like.

It would be good if all of us could have the attitude of the blind man. He saw so much more than the eye can see. The blind man saw beauty and the one who could see only saw a dull wall.

God says that we walk by faith and not by sight. God spoke as though the things were already present. That man's faith made him see more clearly what things are. Oh ye of little faith.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.

God did for us what no other can do. Our Salvation is in Jesus alone.