Psalm 1:4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

When I was young I used to watch films of Africans tossing their wheat into the air thinking it was a bit of a waste they were losing so much to the wind!

But with a bit of ageing and a whole lot of learning I have learned this is the way they separated what they could eat from the dry husks which were worthless to them – they were using what God gave them to achieve what we did with extraordinary machinery!

God wants us to take what he has given us and use it to the best of our ability – He is trying to teach us how to live with His blessings every day!

Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers

Have you noticed how God does not just forgive us and allow us to go on doing our own thing!

Jesus paid the ultimate price on our behalf and expects us to try and show the same love toward Him as He showed to us...

This does mean turning away from the evil or bad ways we used to live by... God is setting us free from the temptations of this world, but we still have to make a choice!

Psalm 46:10 He says, ‘Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.’

When you are a parent, you can normally make out your child's voice in among a crowd!

We are children of God, and He hears us clearly no matter what is going on in the world around us.

If we truly enter into a loving relationship with God, we will hear His voice clearly no matter how loud the world shouts!