Today....January 13th....
Twenty-four hours...
We'll sleep part of it...
We'll spend time eating and drinking to nourish our bodies...
We may spend part of it, since it's Thursday, looking to the weekend and what plans we can make to enjoy ourselves.
Seems like we live our lives ignoring today, yet wrapped up by our past and all the destruction we've brought on ourselves. We allow the past to define us and thereby influence the choices we make for tomorrow.
I guess what I'm getting at, is that we have all manner of possibilities out there waiting on us today. Just today
Some will be pleasurable to our senses.....
Other possibilities may be very drastic or dark...
Some will enhance our day...
Some may determine the course of our future days.
No matter which, we are ill equipped to handle them without the Spirit of God living and working inside of us.
As followers of Jesus (if that is truly who we are looking to each day) we have an obligation to seek Him out for wisdom and direction.
Something the church is long on talking about and short on actually doing. For some reason, we want to pigeon-hole Jesus just in case we actually need Him during the day. He's truly is our "get-out-of-jail" card that we will pull when the day goes horribly wrong.
This is not the way He wants us to live.
Relationship is about interaction at every moment of every day.
Now lets not get silly in this...
I do not believe we need to seek Jesus' direction for which pair of socks we need to wear today...
Nor do I need Him to show me which cereal to eat ( Rice Krispies ...or Captain Crunch). You get the idea....
So today, set your mind, heart, spirit and soul to stay in conscious contact with Jesus. In other words....let today be a Step #11 Day.
“Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” Just for (Wait for it)......TODAY!
God on you...
mbb
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