Pink Ice Cream with Sprinkles!

Where has the past week gone? Seriously....has it been a week since I posted last! Well, this weekend Sean was busy with seed corn harvest so Parker and I went on a double date with my parents, Grandad & Grandma Diane, to Grand Island Saturday night. We even got to end the date with a treat at Coldstone! Parker wanted "Pink Ice Cream
with Sprinkles!" and ate most of the sprinkles and hardly any of the Raspberry Sorbet.

This morning we got to play with the McNair girls. Parker loved playing and was sad when he had to take his nap and they had to leave....no, they did not all nap in the bed together...even though I am sure they would have slept really good like that.




My bible study group has been studying the book of 1 Kings and if you haven't ever read the Old Testament it is full of so much history and TRUTH! Last week I was so challenged by this that I must share...(Warning: the rest of this post will be about my study in 1 Kings, so if you are already bored, you will want to stop reading here.)

If you want to set yourself up for this I encourage you to read 1 Kings chapter 1. Here is a brief summary of what is going on....

King David is old and dying so his oldest living son, Adonijah, declares himself king. Bathsheba and Nathan the Prophet get wind of this and tell David. David immediately has Solomon, his son with Bathsheba, annointed King. When Adonijah hears of this he "repents" and grabs the horns of the altar in fear of Solomon and what might happen to him for trying to take the kingship.

This is what Matthew Henry's commentary says regarding 1 Kings 1:50-51...

He (Adonijah) took hold on the horns of the altar, which was always looked upon as a sanctuary, or place of refuge...Perhaps Adonijah had formerly slighted the service of the altar, yet now he courts the protection of it. Many who in the day of their security neglect the great salvation, under the arrests of the terrors of the Lord would gladly be beholden to Christ and his merit, and, when it is too late, will catch hold of the horns of the altar.

How true! How many believers ignore the service of the altar until we need the protection of it?

Oh, Lord...may we never treat you like a God we only need in times of trouble to give us what we want. That we would love you, serve you, obey you, and know you at all times of life whether in plenty or in want...For you alone are worthy of our lives.

"Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance. You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all of our iniquities into the depths of the sea." Malachi 7:18-19.

Love to you all, Jess.