Sorry, but I am a fan of Star Trek. The devotional this morning sounded like a Star Trek episode - one of those darn parallel universe episodes! ;-)
We do live in two different universes - our earthly world and our heavenly world. We deal with the earthly world each day. We should also deal with and think about the heavenly world each day as well!
I want to praise God this morning for waking me up last night. I woke up with the sweetest feeling of peace and calm that I have had for a few days. If you read yesterday's posting, you know that I have been struggling with some spiritual issues of late. Like most folks, my relationship with God ebbs and flows as I learn to trust and obey and have more faith every day of my earthly life. I don't always count on having "feelings" when it comes to God. Sometimes you just "know" things are going to be OK. I thank God for the feelings this time because it is what I needed at the time to make things real to me.
My prayer for you today is that God will make things real to you each and every day in whatever ways you need.
Lord, thank you for your presence in my life even though I can't always "feel" it!
Disciple Two-sday
We have a three week break from the D2 class. I will share a few passages that meant a lot to me from the last few weeks.
One of the passages that stood out to me last week was Luke 5:36-39. It is the passage about new and old garments and new and old wine. I hadn't thought about this passage for a while. We talked about what it meant -- new wine and old wine. We finally decided two things. First, that people can get in a rut (old wine) and not want to try new things (new wine). For me, the old wine was my old habits and comfort zone. I would rather stay in my comfort zone and keep doing my old habits (even if they are unhealthy for me) rather than enjoy the new wine (and new life in Christ). Interesting thoughts.
Other Stuff
I had a busy evening. Went to dinner with some friends. Came home so I could finish my buckeyes (12 dozen, whew!). I also finished laundry, changed the sheets on my bed and did some other stuff around the house. I want to spend tonight with friends so I had to get all that stuff done so I wouldn't worry about it later in the week.
I am looking forward to this weekend and next week and the week after that... hehehe God is so good, even in times when we don't think he is really paying attention. ;-P
Hang in there, my friends. I will be upbeat and steady. That is what I do...
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