Goal: Be More Divinely Loving
Heavenly Father,
Thank You for this beautiful morning and, again, thank You for answering my prayer as to where I can meet with You alone without any people around and yet being able to see your creation and beauty! I love having my coffee with You in the morning in the driveway while the sun rises! Thank You for helping me to get up at 5:01am today! I showered and went to get eggs and then came back to make breakfast and all the while I was asking myself, "Why am I getting up so early if I am not meeting with You first thing?" I pondered this all the while and came up with this:
When I get up early and am ready to go by 5:44am (literally), I am alert, awake, and ready to fellowship with my family -especially since there is limited time before Steve leaves for work. I am happier knowing that I am ready for the day. The only quirk is that I would like to have my devotions before I do anything else after I am ready and alert instead of making breakfast and then cleaning up.
As it is, I shower, get ready, make breakfast, clean up after breakfast, see Steve off, and then make my cup o' Joe and head to the driveway to meet with You, sing to You, praise You, thank You, and listen to You. The time out there is really treasured by me!
I have discovered that I am afraid. When I fear that I do not have enough time to get things done, when I am afraid something that is mine will be damaged, when I fear the house is not being picked up after projects, when I fear that I will disappoint someone. Fear-False Evidence Appearing Real, as Zig Ziglar would say.
Yesterday my note card to carry around read as this: "My focus and goal is to be with God and spend time "doing life" with Him. It matters not the situations hard or easy, fun or work, but that I am with my Heavenly Father. Just as I don't care where my earthy dad and I would go or how hard the work, as long as I get to be with him. I get to be with God! I want to listen and obey and talk to Him! In trying situations, may I look to God first before answering or speaking my mind. What say You, God? (about whatever the situation!)"
Today, I have made it more clear and concise to say: I will pause for the count of 5 before responding to people (to the best of my ability to do this 100% of the time). This will give me time to remember to ask God, "I know this is what I would say, but how should I respond, Lord? Exactly what should I say?"
I am thankful for the clear and measureable goal! It was a bit ambiguous yesterday.
At church on Sunday I wrote down to be "more divinely loving" is my goal, enabled by God, fulfilled by God.
Lord, please speak to me as I read Your word. Help me to study, concentrate, and listen to You. In Jesus' name. AMEN! Father, glorify your name!
John 7
Verses: 12-13 Jesus cannot be just a "good man." He either deceives and is horrible or He is who He says He is-God in flesh. John 14:9-14 is where Jesus tells us that He is in the Father and the Father is in Him. This is also where we get praying "in Jesus' name and asking for things in Jesus' name, which is what He tells us to do in those verses. Is that only for while He is in the flesh? And now that He is with the Father, are we still to ask Jesus or to ask the Father in Jesus' name?
John 7: 14-24
Jesus is dividing by truth. Truth will always divide. People can cause division and that is wrong. Truth causes division and that is good and right. (1 Cor. 11:19)
We need to be careful how we judge. We should judge those who confess to be Christians, but not unbelievers. We judge Christians only in a humble way to reconcile them to Christ if they have sinned, however, remember to be aware of the plank in our own eyes before judging the spec in another's eye.
Father, please bless me and enable me to know You more, to proclaim Your name and glorify Your name.
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