I have been trying to have faithful devotions
but its been difficult. I am struggling
because I have many personal responsibilities to handle and my job really needs my
evening hours. What happens is I use evening hours to handle
job overflow and personal responsibilities and our busy children's lives and
homework round-out the busy rush of each evening. All of these things have a time-sensitive
element in one way or another so they "speak" rather loudly to
me. In order to not let anything hit the
floor I listen to all of their loud voices.
However, what this does is put me in a situation in which I am up late
and getting up to spend time with God is impossible in the morning. So, I find that I stay "caught up"
with what the loud voices of life ask me to do - but the still small voice of
the Lord is neglected.
Last year I did a 30-day "Put God First
Test" in which I spent time with God each morning no matter what. I trusted that if I put God first - He would
help with the rest. I need to get back
to that. Today was my first day. I am
really slammed at work, backed-up on personal items, challenged to be a better
daddy and husband as well.
I will try to journal/blog
daily during this 30 days.
My Psalm of the day is Psalm 140. It talked about evil men and
slanderers speaking against us. This
certainly happens to all of us and I suppose its inevitable in this life. I guess my main prayer is that my family and
I would not be participants in this.
Lord, help us not to be in the business of speaking about people behind
their backs, not gossiping, and not getting our “pound of flesh” from people –
even if they would arguably deserve it.
Ok Lord, I am slammed
at work- help me, I trust you to do just that.
Let’s Go God!
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