HE IS WORTH IT

Good morning this fine morning!

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and 
with all your soul and with all your strength.  
Deuteronomy 6:4-5

I pray you had a blessed night! I did. I slept really well. I have never been a sound sleeper or a good sleeper. I wake up a lot and then can't go back to sleep. And that still happens sometimes. But God really answered my prayers. I have really been sleeping good. I feel so much better when I sleep good. My attitude and my demeanor are so much better the next day. I praise God for helping me to sleep. As I always like to share-GOD is so good all the time. And HE does answer prayer!

Every day I ask God to show me what He wants me to share in this blog. And some days it comes so easy but today I have so much on my plate to do, my mind is swirling around all those things and I can't concentrate. My Dad and Step-mom are coming tomorrow and I am so excited and I have so much to do. I wish my house was a showplace all the time and then I wouldn't have to spend so much time cleaning and so on. But I am trying to do an early, early spring-like cleaning. My house is not dirty just very lived in. 

My husband is not the best at cleaning up. Maybe I am not either! I mean he could be worse but he could be better. When I leave things laying around I know that I have to pick them up but when he leaves things around, he doesn't pick it up or put them away. I mean he does some times. It is not big things but like the telephone book. When he needs it he doesn't put it away. I know that is not a big deal but lots of little things add up. 

I am so blessed by God to have him and would not give him up for anything. I try not to complain but sometimes those little things irritate me. I guess that is life. Maybe it is how we wake up in the morning. Some days those things get to you and some days nothing gets to you. Maybe it has to do with how much time and the quality of that time we spend with the Lord. If we are rushed and don't spend much time with Jesus, we are more prone to be irritated all day and vice versa. Are we mad at ourselves for not giving more time to Him? I am not sure if it is a conscious thing but maybe it is true. When we spend a lot of time with Jesus, we have more of Him in us and are more tolerant of little irritating things. The focus of that day is more on Him and less on those itty bitty things. 

Well, I guess I found something to tell you about. Isn't God amazing? Anyway, if we try to spend more quality time with Jesus, it might change our attitude a lot. If you don't have time before work in the morning or at night to spend with Him, get up earlier or stay up later or give something up. Isn't HE worth it? Or isn't Jesus the focus of your life? If Jesus is the focus, then where is the problem? This really hits home. 

How important is He really in our lives? Are we willing to give our lives to Him? He gave up His whole life for us and we can't take the time to spend with Him consistently? Oh my! Where are our priorities? (I am speaking to myself also.) They are not as much on Jesus as we think. Our flesh wins a lot. Sleep, work, play, whatever! 

Let us make a conscious effort to spend lots of quality time with Jesus. He is worth every second of it! But even if we don't, He loves us anyway!

And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
Colossians 1:10

“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory 
and honor and power, for you created all things, and 
by your will they were created and have their being.”
Revelation 4:11

Have a great day!

Les






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