Yep...I got sick and fell off the wagon again. It is amazing how just a couple of days out can mess up your entire schedule....Ugh. Tryin to get back on track here...
Day 25 - Today I will choose to believe that You are faithful and that you use hard times to make me more like Jesus.
Sheila Walsh prompted me to start thinking when she asked me what questions I ask God during the hard times. The fall back for me and I'm sure most of us is the infamous question of "why?" Why me? Why now? Why this? Why did it have to happen this way? Why can't You just fix it? And I'm sure we could come up with a million more 'whys.' As I stopped to think about this, I reflected on the challenge - He uses the hard times to make me more like Jesus. Maybe I'm asking the wrong question. Maybe instead of 'why' I should be asking 'how.' How can I be like Christ in this situation? (I know, I know....back to the whole WWJD thing...). After all, that, if nothing else, is what we should gain from hard situations - becoming more like Christ. Sheila notes that she is on a personal campaign to always refer to Romans 8:28-29 together, not separately. I think she makes a good point: "We know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. For (aka because) God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son."
Day 26 - Today I will be totally honest with You when I come to You in prayer.
Not always easy to do. But I have tried today. The one thing I got from my devotion this morning is this: Prayer must be intimate! Or the relationship isn't real... For that reason I am trying my best, no matter how humbling, to be honest when I talk with Him.
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WWJD?
Day 17 - Today I will embrace my identity as a follower, a disciple of Jesus Christ.
I had this horrible gut feeling this morning as I read through my devotions that there isn't much in my life that visibly points to my identity as a disciple of Christ. Yeah, I'm a fairly loving individual but so are a lot of other people...people that aren't disicples of Christ. I vowed this morning to change that.
But once I got back into the craziness of work - 4 babies, 10 kiddos between the ages of 12 months and 20 months, and about 20 different problems...I forgot all about what I read this morning. As I came home I took a few minutes to relax before starting dinner...when I realized that I had again put my Christianity on the back burner. It was then that I asked myself the question - what does it mean to be a disciple of Christ? It means to walk in His very footsteps. Since I cannot physically do that without having a physical presence, what does that mean for me in the modern world? It means to be like Him. To do what He did, what He would have done. I know it sounds cliche but what would Jesus do? He definitely wouldn't talk to a co-worker about how another co-worker has seriously annoyed you. He would try to understand what the underlying cause was in why the co-worker was annoying in the first place (aka...He wouldn't get annoyed). He would have a better attitude about coming home to make dinner after a long stressful day at work.
I am supposed to be learning from Him...as a disciple. The one thing I did do right today was read His word. I read from John about remaining on the vine in order to bear fruit...(15:1-6). God was definitely reiterating what I had read that morning. I have to remain in Christ, I have to follow Him. Obviously easier said than done. But I'm ready to face tomorrow with the question on my mind: what would Jesus do? I need to look to His example in all that I do, all that I say. Maybe then people will be able to SEE that I am following in His footsteps.
I had this horrible gut feeling this morning as I read through my devotions that there isn't much in my life that visibly points to my identity as a disciple of Christ. Yeah, I'm a fairly loving individual but so are a lot of other people...people that aren't disicples of Christ. I vowed this morning to change that.
But once I got back into the craziness of work - 4 babies, 10 kiddos between the ages of 12 months and 20 months, and about 20 different problems...I forgot all about what I read this morning. As I came home I took a few minutes to relax before starting dinner...when I realized that I had again put my Christianity on the back burner. It was then that I asked myself the question - what does it mean to be a disciple of Christ? It means to walk in His very footsteps. Since I cannot physically do that without having a physical presence, what does that mean for me in the modern world? It means to be like Him. To do what He did, what He would have done. I know it sounds cliche but what would Jesus do? He definitely wouldn't talk to a co-worker about how another co-worker has seriously annoyed you. He would try to understand what the underlying cause was in why the co-worker was annoying in the first place (aka...He wouldn't get annoyed). He would have a better attitude about coming home to make dinner after a long stressful day at work.
I am supposed to be learning from Him...as a disciple. The one thing I did do right today was read His word. I read from John about remaining on the vine in order to bear fruit...(15:1-6). God was definitely reiterating what I had read that morning. I have to remain in Christ, I have to follow Him. Obviously easier said than done. But I'm ready to face tomorrow with the question on my mind: what would Jesus do? I need to look to His example in all that I do, all that I say. Maybe then people will be able to SEE that I am following in His footsteps.
