Missing Portion-Holy Spirit; Day130; In A Relationship; Nicky/Mawing

To the end that through [their receiving] Christ Jesus, the blessing [promised] to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we through faith might [all] receive [the realization of] the promise of the [Holy] Spirit.  Gal 3:14 

Missing Portion-Holy Spirit
The other day I was creating a list of why people dislike to come to church and in today’s devotion reminded me that I missed one important part – the Holy Spirit.  It’s not enough that we confess that Christ is our King, we must allow ourselves to open our heart and let the Holy Spirit dwells in us.  Once that is done, He has full control of our desires and therefore good and righteous things follow us in everything we do.  We don’t even have to try hard, it will just happen because The Holy Spirit takes control of our thoughts and mind.

In A Relationship
My daughter turned 18 yesterday but she made the day so significant. Here’s why:
1. In her Facebook account, she changed her status “In A Relationship” WOW! [declaring something on BDay]
2. In the morning, I called for a ‘5-minute’ one on one meeting with her [we operate as a corporate team] and asked the truth, the answer “If I was kidding, why would I do that’”. Another WOW!
3. More.. more, We had a scheduled dinner at 7pm, as she arrives home from school at 6pm while in the hallway at the house as we passed by each other, she said “Can he come with us?” Oh, another WOW!  Britta and Bettina [our in-house relationship consultants] were just so shocked.  Just wait for their weekly report in BBN radio baba, it will be broadcast in Looc and Merida exclusively.

I don’t really care too much on these matters.  I think our kids deserve to be free from our control on whatever they may decide in life.  We made mistakes along the way also and in those mistakes, we learned and moved on.  I always remind myself from something I learned long time ago – “Train up a child in the way he should go,  and when he is old he will not depart from it”. Proverbs 22:6 . Our job as parents is to train them for 18 years with all the Godly principles available and show them righteous examples from our life.  After the training, you watch them handle difficult situations and see if what you trained them for is applied accordingly.  We guide them for 18 years and then when DDay comes, we start the “watch and see” phase and make sure they are able to cope life’s challenges.

Nicky/Mawing
We had a small reunion last night as Nicky arrived from New Orleans.  He will be staying with us in Brent’s room.  This is the first time we met, as I joined SPC1983 in High School, he left Ormoc for Don Bosco in Cebu.  One thing weird though is he is the cousin of Ingrid and Ging-ging Tan [my sisters in Christ]. Maybe Ingrid or Ging-ging can explain to me what the Holy Spirit is doing in the midst of all these.   

MIT (Most Important Task)
1. Swim session with Nick/Mawing
2. Tour with Nick/Mawing
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