Morning Lord! I’ve had a very leisurely morning so far – so much so that I’m in danger of not making time for you at all. I guess that’s another one of life’s little ironies – most of us crave freedom but we actually benefit from structure.
We haven’t got very much exciting planned today. The weather is very changeable and not conducive to outside (free!) entertainment such as parks and beaches. I guess that’s hardly surprising given that next Tuesday is the first official day of winter. I guess we’ll just have to see what develops.
I got to thinking yesterday about how much I have to be grateful for, Lord. Granted, we are not rich, our home is modest, and we’re never going to set the world on fire with some latent talent we might have. Yet we have so much more than most – including dare I say, a sense of humour and ability to laugh things off. We have family, friends, fellowship – and most of all we have you. I got to thinking how easy it is to become dissatisfied with our lot by considering what we don’t have. But the thing is, when we have you, we have everything.
I think the big difference in our appreciation of you comes from having an engaged, living relationship with you, Lord. I was thinking to myself that in the past I have not really appreciated you because I hadn’t really relied on you for anything other than my basic salvation. I just figured that you got saved, then tried your best to be as “Christian” as possible, and essentially tried not to stuff up. How different it is to have you as the centre of that salvation, where it is you living in and through me, rather than me living for you.
So, Lord, whatever we do today then becomes completely secondary to the fact that we do it with you. And on that note I pray once again that you would work in and through me for your good purposes. I lift our family before you and pray for your blessing. Amen.