Day 280
Jeremiah 14:1-15:21, Colossians 3:1-4:1, Proverbs 24:15-22
Today Paul sets out some rules for holy living, not a bad thing for us to try and emulate. Within this he talks about setting our hearts and minds on higher things and the he goes on to talk about different sins and different things that we need to try and put behind us.
If we were to try and identify "worldly things" we might go for money, power, jobs (things that give us a sense of pride) and then we might pop in a few of the sins that Paul himself includes here.
I recently red this book by Carolyn Ros which is a moving story of one family's battle with illness. The way that the family come through and allow God to work within them is utterly amazing.
One of the things that Carolyn herself speaks of having to give up is some of the stress that they were going through as the dad in the family fought with memory loss and fits. The way that the stress could have consumed her and taken her focus away from helping her family. She worried about the future and what she was going through at that immediate time and realised that she had to give all of this over to God. Only when she gave her needs to God, and when she gave the worry itself to God, could she focus and do what God needed her to do.
I am an eternal worrier and it is only when I give that to God that I can allow the spirit to come in and work through me. Sometime the stress and the worry consume the place where the Spirit needs to dwell and when we let it go the Spirit can actually come in and work wonders within us.
Worrying about things often keeps our mind on the earthly stuff, let us fix our minds on higher things.
Is there any stress you need to give to God today?
Today Paul sets out some rules for holy living, not a bad thing for us to try and emulate. Within this he talks about setting our hearts and minds on higher things and the he goes on to talk about different sins and different things that we need to try and put behind us.
If we were to try and identify "worldly things" we might go for money, power, jobs (things that give us a sense of pride) and then we might pop in a few of the sins that Paul himself includes here.
One of the things that Carolyn herself speaks of having to give up is some of the stress that they were going through as the dad in the family fought with memory loss and fits. The way that the stress could have consumed her and taken her focus away from helping her family. She worried about the future and what she was going through at that immediate time and realised that she had to give all of this over to God. Only when she gave her needs to God, and when she gave the worry itself to God, could she focus and do what God needed her to do.
I am an eternal worrier and it is only when I give that to God that I can allow the spirit to come in and work through me. Sometime the stress and the worry consume the place where the Spirit needs to dwell and when we let it go the Spirit can actually come in and work wonders within us.
Worrying about things often keeps our mind on the earthly stuff, let us fix our minds on higher things.
Is there any stress you need to give to God today?
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