Kathryn at Expectant Hearts is hosting this weeks In Other Words and chose this quote:
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day
as if nothing had yet been done.
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Choices. Every day we are faced with the opportunity and the responsibility to make choices. Every day we can speak blessings or curses over our life and the lives of our loved ones. We can declare hope or we can prophesy disaster.
My marriage wouldn’t thrive if I did not choose every day to love, honour and respect my husband. I can’t store up points from yesterday’s actions. I cannot ignore, neglect or hurt a friend then say, “It doesn’t matter because I was kind to you last week.”
It is surely no different with our God. Each day we must make a deliberate choice to worship and adore Him. Each day we must choose to receive His love for us. Each day we must crawl back upon the altar and offer Him our lives.
The first thing my husband and I do as we wake every morning is pray, agreeing with the Lord that we are dead to our flesh and alive in Him, asking that His Holy Spirit fill us, lead us and that His will would be done in and through us. Yes, we might have died yesterday, but our flesh yearns to rise up again today.
Choices. A fresh start with each new day. Make the choice. Choose life. Choose Jesus!
“Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!
2 comments:
Great! Sometimes we so easily forget to give our day to the Lord when we wake! I have two little ones so am quite often woken by them and am straight on mum duty when I get up. I do take time out most mornings to sit with tea and toast and pray and read something in my Bible.
Collette xxx
Thank you for sharing. I love the practicality of choosing how to treat our loved ones EVERY day.
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