More Jesus

Karis always seems to "teach" me something about life, myself, my imperfections, etc.  She has brought out the best and worst in me at times.  I really do thank God for this little girl and that by His Grace he teaches me through moments with her each day.  This morning was one of those moments.  She was flipping through her Bible while I was feeding Isaac.  As I began reading a story to her, she started flipping through the pages.  Normally I try to get her to focus on one story at a time, but I figured it wasn't worth a fight.  She started saying "Jesus" in her cute little way.  She was looking for Jesus in the Bible.  So we found baby Jesus and she said, "Baby Jesus, night night"! (yea pretty much adorable I know!)  She continues flipping pages and starts saying, "more Jesus, more Jesus"!  I laughed and said yea, we all need more Jesus.  So we flipped through pages to find more pictures of Jesus while she continued on saying, "more Jesus".  Little bit about Karis, when she wants more of something, she will say it over and over, "more fill in the blank".  For example, more car (meaning: I want to see more cars), more music (meaning: play more music mommy) and one of my personal favorites, more donkey (I guess meaning: I want to see more donkeys! Haha I don't know!)

The picture I captured of her on my phone
today as she kept saying, MORE JESUS!
Anyway, I got to thinking about "more Jesus" and how I do need more Jesus in my life.  I need more of God's word to penetrate my heart and bring me to repentence daily.  I need more of His Grace to love and parent my children well.  I need more of Jesus' love to overwhelm me so I can love my husband, family, friends and neighbors well.  I simply need more Jesus.  This isn't to say that I think as a Christian you have "less of Jesus" in your life if you aren't doing x, y & z (that can walk the line of legalistic religious based worship).  Simply, what I'm saying is that I need to walk in the Spirit (more) and not live life trying to please myself (whether I realize I'm doing it or not).  Galatians 5:16 says, "walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh."  My fleshy tendencies creep in often when I don't walk by the spirit.  I get rude, selfish, short with my children and husband, self centered (the list could go on).  However, it's when I walk by the Spirit (when I have more Jesus in my daily interactions) that I find I live a life more honoring and pleasing to the Lord. 

So, yes Karis, MORE JESUS!

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