High Voltage Blog 30 Day Prayer Challenge Day 7, October 5, 2014 “This is the day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24 Usually, my day starts rolling before my feet hit the floor. The alarm goes off and I begin to itemize. Details of the day ahead begin to scroll. The big-picture comes to mind first. What is today? What do the Apples have going? Once I am oriented to the day of the week, the little things come into focus—non negotiable, like making sure everybody is ready at a certain time, clean, fed, and off the roof. I love the mornings when the only thing on my list is to make a pot of coffee and sit down with my Bible—when nothing else competes with my need to center my day in stories of God working in impossible situations. I have been created to need uninterrupted time with Him, to ponder on things He has done that are way beyond my understanding, and to seriously examine the faith it took in relatively few individuals throughout history. I am given the opportunity for my life to explode with possibilities, if I will engage my own walk with His plan and have faith. We only know life in the parentheses--the beginning and the end. He has always been though. He wasn’t born. He just always was. This in itself is impossible for my mind to wrap around. But time doesn’t even exist for Him. Yet, I can’t throw the covers off without “time” and its limited nature entering into my awareness and encroaching on my alone-time with him. He had quite a bit of “time” to think about how He’d make creation and most importantly, how He’d make us. We were the pièce de résistance—the best part of His creative handiwork. We were formed from dust and a rib somehow, and it made His week. It was good. Because we were created in His image, He knew that besides Him, what would be dearest to us would be each other. This makes sense because He also delighted in relationships. He wasnt just one, He was a Trinity of one. After making Adam, He saw that he was lonely and needed someone. The limitlessness of His choice for Adam was staggering. He chose a woman. Relationships matter to God. My relationships matter to Him. He wants them to be the pièce de résistance of my life. They are on His mind when I become conscious each morning, as Satan is busy throwing everything else of the day in my face. The enemy wants me to become preoccupied and overwhelmed by my to-do list, feeling anxious and tense about the next 24 hours within the first 5 minutes I’m awake. He stacks it on thick, turning me into a pressure-cooker. “I have no time to pray…are you kidding?” And I bolt out of bed and begin my day, pressing on towards way more important things. And from there, my relationships take a back seat. I don’t even believe that “relationship” was the main consideration as He delighted in us. I believe love was. Relationship is the byproduct of love. He loves us and we love Him back through our Worship of Him. He is God and He made this whole thing so beautiful. When Satan misleads God’s own people to not be in active relationship with Him, he’s got an enormous foothold not only in our lives but in all creation. It’s broken. Here’s how to redeem it. Be. Be who you were created to be. Be whose you are. Talk to God. Read stories that talk about other people talking to God. Read the stories that show you first-hand, how impossible somebody’s situation was and how thoroughly their Creator handled it. Don’t be intimidated by His Word. Just read it for enjoyment—yours and His. If you have not already, will you do it now? Scripture of the Day: “For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 Song of the Day: “Offering,” by Paul Baloche https://youtube/watch?v=dCh7AFvEVjk
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 12:53:24 +0000
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