I had actually planned on doing something different for Word Filled Wednesday and as I begun work on the post and what oru Father was laying on my heart, the post took a life on it’s own and I discovered I had to publish the post as something seperate from WFW.
I felt like this for awhile last year.
Asleep.
Tired.
Run-down.
A spiritual valley that I found myself in and no clue how to get out of it; Admidst it all this powerful craving and hunger for our Heavenly Father’s fellowship and word, but feeling miles away from it.
I can’t remember the exact spark, but it happen at the same time that our church challenged all the members to committing just one month to reading our bibles daily, praying and fasting if we choose.
It didn’t matter where in the bible,just that we pick a book and commit to reading.
About that time, I committed myself to really going through with using the Life Journal and S.O.A.P. method and it turned around after that.
I discovered my hunger for His word satisfied and yet still hungering to learn more; I found myself really drawn closer and really desiring a more living and active faith then the faith I felt I really had.
Not just skimming the surface, but really diving into His word and discovering that wonderful and personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Being a Christian is more than just showing up at church one day out of the week or only opening our bibles during service (if we even bring our bibles at all; I noticed there is a lot of people who go to church these days that don’t bother to carry their bible).
For me, being a follower of Christ, is having an active and constant relationship that doesn’t begin and end on one day, but on every day that really belongs to God, not to us.
I discovered to truly have that relationship with God, it took time, work,devotion, prayer and just really giving my life to Him and not just paying lip service.
What I did on the outside, doesn’t matter at the end of the day, or when a crisis hits, as it matters where I am with Him, in my heart and if I did or did not have a relationship with Him. I discovered that when I’m not just asleep at the wheel, but really paying attention to where He is taking me and where we are going, how much richer being a Christian has become and it’s not to say I still don’t have my bad days.
There are days when I find myself drinking a cup of coffee to just get my day going and having to remind myself, I need to get that day started as well with reading His Word while other days, it’s an automatic response of immediately spending time in His word.
Saying I wish doesn’t make that much of an active difference as actually going “I did” and I find myself striving more and more to have more days of going “I did” and less and less days of “I wish”.
I find when I make that concerted effort to just completely give myself and give my day to Him, those days of automatically doing that and feeling the effects is becoming more and more noticable that things I thought was difficult before becomes easier now.
“All things are possible” is true when we fully let go of trying to contain and be in control and instead just listen, be active and intentional and learn restraint ourselves as we try not to jump and do His job for Him and just let Him do His work in and through us.
I find that coffee just becomes a treat when I’m already energized through reading His word for that day and getting ready to be “In Service for Him”.
On the days, that I don’t feel or think I do my best, there is that subtle core that reminds me, He’s got it in control. Drink the coffee, if it’s lunch before I read the Word, that’s okay, but no matter what, at some point in my day, as in some point in our lives, I’ve gotta be ready to be up and going.
His Word is forever and a firm foundation and if we’re not careful and just fall asleep at the wheel, it’s easy to miss the awesome things that only our Heavenly Father can do.
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