Thursday, June 17, 2010
Quick Story from Yesterday, Seek me Early...
Yesterday morning I woke with a question in my mind. Why am I so quick to neglect my morning time with the Lord now? Several months ago I was going through a hard time. Every day seemed to be more than I could bear. Too much work, no rest, conficts within, conficts with others, money problems, etc. It seemed that everyday I would come home after the day a just be beat to crap. I definitely wasn't overcoming the world, it was overcoming me. I started to latch on the Lord first thing in the morning becuase I didn't think I could get through the day without Him. I needed the time of peace, comfort, and joy He would bring to make the day go smoother and have the strength to get though it. Now things have settled down, He has brought an inner, lasting peace and healing in many places of my soul and life is more tranquil. So I don't feel I "need" the time each morning and cut it short, or just spend time praying, mediating, etc. while I drive.
I felt compelled to read the message of the Day from "God Calling" and it shed a lot of light on what I was thinking.
Seek Me Early June 16
Walk in My Way and trust Me. No evil can touch you. I am yours as truly as you are Mine. Rest in that truth.
Rest, that is, cease all struggle. Gain a calm, strong confidence in that certainty. Do not only rest in Me when the world's struggles prove too much and too many for you to bear or face alone. Rest in Me when you need perfect understanding, when you need the consciousness of tender, loving friendship and intercourse.
The world, my poor world, flies to Me when its difficulties are too great to be surmounted any other way, forgetting, or never realizing, that if, with the same eagerness, those hearts sought Me merely for companionship and loving intercourse, many of the difficulties would not arise.
The circumstances, the life, the character would be so altered - so purified, that those same difficulties would not exist.
Seek Me early, that is the way to find Me. Early, before I get crowded out by life's troubles, and difficulties and pleasures.
I hope this blesses you....
Michael
I felt compelled to read the message of the Day from "God Calling" and it shed a lot of light on what I was thinking.
Seek Me Early June 16
Walk in My Way and trust Me. No evil can touch you. I am yours as truly as you are Mine. Rest in that truth.
Rest, that is, cease all struggle. Gain a calm, strong confidence in that certainty. Do not only rest in Me when the world's struggles prove too much and too many for you to bear or face alone. Rest in Me when you need perfect understanding, when you need the consciousness of tender, loving friendship and intercourse.
The world, my poor world, flies to Me when its difficulties are too great to be surmounted any other way, forgetting, or never realizing, that if, with the same eagerness, those hearts sought Me merely for companionship and loving intercourse, many of the difficulties would not arise.
The circumstances, the life, the character would be so altered - so purified, that those same difficulties would not exist.
Seek Me early, that is the way to find Me. Early, before I get crowded out by life's troubles, and difficulties and pleasures.
I hope this blesses you....
Michael
