Corona Devo 1148

It's calf season!  I'm from Cleveland, but I don't mean Cavs season (like the Cleveland basketball team), I mean calf season, as in baby cows.  

On a drive today, I passed quite a few farms, and every one that had cows...also had calves!  Curled up in a nap, milling around their moms, exploring the grass, and figuring out their (new) life.   

Sometimes I see things in life or in nature and they comfort me, reassure me, and encourage me that God's still in charge.   His order-of-things is still occurring, such as calves being born in the Spring.  

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.  ~Psalm 24:1  

Lots of things can make us cringe or cause our hearts to drop when we see, read, hear or experience the broken world all around us...but new life reminds us that there is always hope, and take heart, Friends, because we know the hope-Giver.

He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.  ~Colossians 1:17

Just as those calves will learn to be cows from their parents and the surrounding herd, what a great  reminder for us today.  Our babies continue to be born and we (parents and the community-of-Believers) must continue to raise them up in the ways of the Lord.  In this way, they grow-up in Christ and learn to live life in relation to Him and to glorify Him.  This is our job today so that the next generation has faith and a foundation (for themselves and others) tomorrow.  

Animals teach their young daily routines and survival tips, and so must we.

These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you... (2) so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. 

(3) Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly...just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.   

(5) Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 

(6) These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. (7) Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 

(12) ...be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.  

(13) Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. (14) Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; 

(17 )Be sure to keep the commands of the Lord your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you. 

(18) Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that it may go well with you...  

(24) The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. 

(25) And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.”  ~Deuteronomy 6:1-3, 5-7, 12-13, 17-18, 24-25  

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Teach, disciple, discipline and raise them up in the Lord!  We may not all be parents, but we are all influencers on the next generation, and it's "calf" season.  In fact, it is always due season for us to have an impact and influence on someone around us.  

Look around--many of our youth (just like new calves) are "curled up in a nap", "milling around", "exploring", and trying to figure out life.  

We are here for a reason!  Young people (and old!) can learn from us, their surrounding "herd".  

What or who were our most positive life-influences?  How have we seen God work in our lives? Think about it, and then share your spiritual wisdom with a young heifer or calf.  It's calf season.

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Building into young people with a heart for the Lord is an invaluable investment.  The return on it will be lives won for the Kingdom of God and an impact for His glory. 

If we see spiritual seeds in a youngster, help sow them!  I was blessed (and proud!) to see my niece chosen as a child-representative for women living (victoriously) for Christ.  At any age we can embrace Christ and make the bold choice to follow Him.  Finding that commitment in a youth is exciting and worth recognizing and encouraging! 

Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.  ~I Timothy 4:12

The young (in faith/age/maturity/experience/Bible/etc.) are all around us.  It's always calf season in that sense.  Young and old people "curled up in a nap", milling around, exploring, and trying to figure out life are in the fields all around us.  They need some mature cows and bulls to show them the ropes of life with the Lord.  

Let the order-of-nature (which God arranged) comfort us today.  Reassure us today.  Encourage us today.  And get us in the saddle today.  

But how can people call for help if they don’t know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven’t heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it?  ~Romans 10:14-15  

It's calf season!

Blessings,

sarah

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