Extreme

2-year-old grandboy and asparagus

"I will make you extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become many nations, and kings will be among them!" (Genesis 17:6)

For two weeks, I've been on a super-duper, extraordinarily healthy diet — not to lose weight, but to boost my immune system and promote good health. I only eat between 11:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M.

Here's lunch (super-salad and grilled salmon):

Here's dinner (veggie omelet cooked in olive oil):

Yesterday, I wanted to celebrate after submitting The Window at Willow Springs to the publisher, so I added dessert after dinner:

Walnuts and a prune. Yum!

"Jill, aren't you being a bit extreme?" you might ask.

Yes, but I'm in good company. Our El Shaddai, Almighty God, is in the business of extreme . . .

In Genesis, God promised Abraham that He would make him extremely fruitful. 

Exodus 1:7 tell us the Abraham's descendants, the Israelites, had many children and grandchildren. In fact, they multiplied so greatly that they became extremely powerful and filled the land.

In 1 Kings 7 we learn that God made Huram extremely skillful and talented in bronze work, and he did the metal work for King Solomon's temple.

In John 3:16, we find that God loved the world so extremely that He gave His only Son, Jesus, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life!

Doesn't that make you extremely happy, beloved? Why not praise God extremely today?