Finally Back

Ha! This is me.

I've finally pulled myself out my pathetic pit thanks too a combination of efforts from: my Max Lucado- Grace daily devotional. "Finding God's Will" by Gregg Matte. and Beth Moore's devotional "Looking Up". Oh and "the Bible", by various authors all inspired by God.

I've discovered I'm at my best when I'm in the Word. His Word. I noticed when I was feeling distant from God it was because I had found excuses to pass on my morning reading. I wake up every day around 8 (Typically two or three hours before I have to be anywhere important) and read. I'm reading through the entire old testament and honestly, I love it. But then books like 1 Chron slows me down. Anyway.

Reading "Finding God's Will" has really relieved some of the weight I've been carrying. He talks about how many of us carry around the mentality that God's will is out there, hiding under a rock, and WE NEED TO FIND IT. But really. Were suppose to be living, not searching, pursuing God, living as godly as we possibly can and then we will find ourselves actually doing God's will. He said God can make any place holy. Where you are right now, your home, your work place, God can make it holy by working through you. I had never though of it like that. Quite frankly, it blew my mind. This whole time I've been "waiting for God to get me out of here" when I could have been thinking "how can I let these people know that God is waiting to work here".

I got to teach the 7th grade girl's sunday school class today. I hadn't prepared at all. I was so busy working the only time I had was a few hours saturday night and a couple hours this morning. I really wants to focus all week on it, but I didn't. I kept thinking about Joshua 24 when he says "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." It made sense because for me 7th and 8th grade was when people really started to start getting involved with the wrong things. Boys, drinking, drugs. But as I was explaining the scripture to them I realized that not just a decision you need to make before 8th grade, or before high school, or before college. You have to make that decision every day. That you will Choose to follow the Lord.

I'm now mentally making that decision every morning. It makes all the difference.