I start work early each morning, so I am typically the first one up. I am usually in my office for about an hour before I hear movement in the rest of the house and I always look forward to the beautiful, cheerful smile that greets me slowly opening my office door. It never fails, every morning, there she is with the most precious smile and she jumps into my lap and plays with the whiskers on my face telling me what she dreamed about or what she has planned for the day. What a special time that is for me each and every morning. Those of you that have children I hope can relate.
After a short time there is this wonderful peace in the house and it is something that is new only since Graceanne was born. It makes our mornings around here so special and I find myself during various parts of the day smiling or even giggling about what she did or said that morning. Then at some point during the day something changes and things are not so happy or easy going and it becomes a struggle. I immediately try to find that place of peace that we love so much and look forward to each morning, but that precious time has passed and the once quite, peaceful home becomes a place of tension and strife. The result of that usually ends up with a time out and some sort of punishment. She is the same little child that we both love and adore but something somewhere changes and then we have to find that place of peace once again.
How many of us do this exact same thing to God the Father? We greet Him in the morning with such praise and adoration and after a few hours in the day we are ignoring Him and even not acknowledging Him. As a parent we all know how that feels when our child seems to disregard everything we are saying or offering and we feel like they are never listening. I have not mastered making sure that the peace is kept in our house all day but I am finding that all we have to do to stay in accord with God is to walk as the scripture points us to do.
2nd Chronicles 7:14 ( The King James ) says “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
That simply means that as long as our Eyes are on Jesus we are more equipped to handle what obstacles we are faced with and we can focus more on strengthening our relationship with Him. The more I understood my Dad and what he expected of me the more I knew how to act so he did not have to ‘ adjust ‘ my attitude. But we are always needing an attitude adjustment, we are human , but by committing ourselves to God and continually communicating with Him, we have a better chance than not to succeed.
The really awesome thing about each day is that God gave us 24 hour days so that no matter what happened in the previous day we have the opportunity to learn from that and apply it to the next day and hopefully we make strides to improve on the previous day’s events.
Lamentations 3:22-24 ( The Message Translation ) ~
God's loyal love couldn't have run out,
his merciful love couldn't have dried up. They're created new every morning.
How great your faithfulness! I'm sticking with God (I say it over and over).
He's all I've got left.
Can I Get a Witness?
K
