Things To Do Today

As I was driving in to the Church this morning, I was thinking about all the things I felt I needed to do today. And I'm going to guess that most of you had similar thoughts at some point after getting up to get your day started.

Let's see, I thought of buying a newspaper, doing this blog, checking with the pharmacy for a prescription I hope the Doctor has called in, reviewing my notes for Prayer Meeting tonight, some visits I needed to make, some bereaved families to pray for, what to get Wanna for Christmas, how to get ready for my daughter's approaching delivery of her third child, what to do for lunch and on and on and on.

In the midst of all that thinking about what to do today, I stopped and asked myself what was missing from my list. Actually, I believe it was Father making me ask what was missing. And I immediately knew.

I was listing all the things to do today to live my life for me rather than for Him.

Sure some of the things to do are religiously connected but the focus of my plans as I was making them was not pleasing God or living my life for Him. And that is what my life is supposed to be all about; living for Him.

If Jesus is your Savior, then your life is to be lived for Him, too. After all, when we surrendered our souls to Him for salvation, didn't we understand that that meant surrendering our lives as well?

His example is that He lived His life for us, died for us, rose for us and now wants the very best for us and from us. We are to follow His example, right? Therefore, we must live our lives for Him.

He is to be our focus. He is to be the author, the impetus of all the things we do today. He is to be our goal. Pleasing Him should receive our very best efforts.

So each day, as you plan your day, first acknowledge Him and His right to first place in every aspect of your life. Then plan your daily things to do around living for and pleasing Him. It's the least we can do for the One who died to give us life abundant and free, don't you think?

And pray. For revival. Pray and pray and pray and pray some more. God will send it. I know He will.

In His Love
Walter