It's like a little voice in your head says....'Today I just don't want to use the energy to do anything but feel down in the dumps!' Do our minds and bodies need that? Just a day off from trying to be the positive person in all circumstances? I heard it put perfectly today - that we are around people that 'make too many withdrawals and not enough deposits' - so you just start to feel drained. (I think that's a completely normal feeling for mothers anyway)...
I feel like I have a pretty good understanding of living a life as a child of God. I enjoy gaining new perspectives and I enjoy every minute of learning and seeking Him. I read in my daily devotional today that we need to be sure to continue to feed our spiritual body. In the same sense that we feed our physical body food - we don't eat a meal and then expect that meal to nourish us for a week.....we can't be nourished just on the memory of eating that meal. I am challenged to do a daily spiritual feeding. I don't do it as often as I should. It's more than just church on Sunday....more than just a couple of times a week...it's just sad that I don't realize that it is just as vitally important to feed my spirit with spiritual food as it is to feed my physical body with physical food. Why can't our spiritual body be more vocal? When I am physically hungry, my stomach growls....is there not a spiritual stomach growl when my spirit is hungry?? {Revelation.....YES! Days like yesterday is a my spiritual stomach growl! How I LOVE writing these blogs!}
Here's an excerpt from my daily devotional: {wish I could take credit....}
"Close your eyes and see yourself slicing a lemon. Now stick that lemon slice between your teeth and when I say, "Three," bite down on it so hard that the juice squirts into your mouth. One. Two. Three. Bite! Chances are, you have such a vivid memory of what it's like to bite on a lemon that your mouth is watering right now. But let me ask you this: Have you received any nourishment from that memory? No. Remembering the Word of God isn't enough. You must continually feed on what it says. Get it out and read it. Go to church and hear it preached. One day, you'll read a familiar verse...a verse you've read thousands of times before...and suddenly God will give you the greatest revelation you've ever had. A completely fresh revelation from that old familiar verse! And it's likely to be exactly what you needed to know about your current situation."
Makes so much sense right?!? Well, I read 1 Peter Chapter 1 & 2 today. In Chapter 2 it talks about how 'you've had a taste of God', to 'drink deep of God's pure kindness. Then you'll grow up mature and whole in God." I asked myself, 'When am I going to mature?" It seems like I am more mature...SOMETIMES....but then I have a day like yesterday, where I CHOOSE to be immature...and it makes me wonder if I'll ever TRULY mature??? Will there ever be a time when those days don't exist? Will I be mature enough to choose to ignore a day like that? Will I recognize it? I sure hope so!!! I guess I'll pray for the ability to recognize when my day starts to go in a negative direction and choose to make it different!
Isn't God awesome??? I am so thankful for the lessons he continuously teaches me!
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