Game On!

You've heard the phrase, "Game on!"  

It's a great phrase meaning, "Okay, we've talked about this, now let's do it!"  

And that is just what the Harty Family is saying.  

GAME ON!

We've talked about the orphan.
We've prayed for the orphan.  

We've supported the orphan.  

We've worshiped with the orphan. 

We've loved the orphan.  

Now, let's bring the orphan into our family.  

Yes, that's right...The Harty Family is adopting!!! 

 GAME ON!!

Now, we don't know exactly what all this is going to look like.  

But we know that the Lord has pricked our heart and we must proceed in obedience.  

With Passover being this past week and yesterday being Maundy Thursday (the day on which Christ celebrated the Last Supper with his disciples - or rather, he celebrated his last Passover Feast), I've really been meditating on the Passover command the Lord gave the Israelites:

"This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand.  Eat it in haste; it is the LORD's Passover." Exodus 12:11

You see, the LORD was preparing the Israelites for something big.  They really weren't sure what the LORD had in store for them, yet they knew they had to be ready for when the LORD called them.  

And that is exactly how we feel.  

We aren't sure what the LORD has in store for us.  

We just know we need to be ready for when the LORD calls us to our child(ren).  

We need to have cloak tucked in our belts, our sandals on our feet and our staff in our hand.  

In other words, we need to be paper ready for when He calls!

Jesus reiterates the idea of being ready when He calls in Luke 12:35-37a:

"Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.  It will be good for those servants whose master finds him watching when he comes."

We don't want to be merely hearers of the Word.  We want to do what it says.  

We believe  Psalm 68:6, that "God sets the lonely in families, 

he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land."
I don't know about you, but I don't want to live in a sun-scorched land.