don't let your worldly desires and flesh get a hold of you. When I don't exercise, eat too much, and let my flesh rule than it overtakes me. When I satisfy my every fleshly desire than I get less in touch with my spiritual desires. To want in the flesh and choose not to fulfill that desire makes the spirit stronger. lust flows out of lack of exercise and an abundance of food. We don't remember that we don't need these things.
Thinking back to the plane. How afraid I was at the thought of dieing.
How could that be. Where was the peace that God normally give me. I was happy with my worldy life. Lacking little.
I would rather remain earthly secure and comfortable. I felt I had a lot to loose. Why don't I consider it rubbish? If I gain the world I loose the heavens.
I need my daily bread. Man does not live on bread alone but on every word of God. When I find my daily meal each day I am not as hungry for my daily spiritual bread. when the physical is not there to satisfy me I turn to what is not physical to fill me.
Remember. Not every day is a fasting day but when life gets to be too routine and mundaine. When I feel safe and secure and feel like I have it all figured out. When I long for more stuff and bigger things and more posessions for happiness than I am missing something at my core.
Give up what is less for what is great. Temp for eternity.
What is the reward for doing good? Do I get money or earthly recognition? Why is it so much harder to do good and to self sacrifice or to make myself uncomfortable when the answer is no! Why can't I do it when I stand to gain Jesus instead of money. I know that nothing I can do can make you more pleased with me than you are because of Jesus and your love for me doesn't change. But I know that somehow it matters to you. What are these rewards? The type of person I become? The status in heaven? Surely not affection from you. How then should I look at it? Maybe to even ask the question is to miss the point. I can't 'not let the right hand know what the left is doing' if I am thinking about the hands. Maybe I have to let go of me. Get my hands off my mind.
It has been harder to concentrate during qt's. less questions and draw. Am I content? Is that bad, it feels that way. I know you are with me always and in all things I do. Maybe the special time feels unnecessary. But you meet me there in a completely different way. How do you meet me during actions? How do you meet me in life? In scripture.
Bring out your spiritual word to me. Let it be a shining light. My body is a resounding gong
I need your base to hold up all the others. When on the plane I had the extras but I let the foundations get rusty. Don't loose your foundation to build the top floors. They are worthless without what is necessary, a base that is greater than anything on top of it. If the third floor is wider than the basement it will fall from the foundation and hit the ground. Work on the stone. Work on nourishing what is most important, foundational, necessary.
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