Scattered

Everything feels so scattered lately. My thoughts, my new house, my belongings still in storage. I feel as if each day is never quite put together and I am pretty sure I know why. I have so neglected to be steadily in the Word of God the past month or so. I chuck it up to being busy with the move, new house and health issues. But truthfully, they are just excuses. I am not saying that reading God's Word is going to magically solve the chaos of my physical life at this moment, but what it will do is give me a peace within that slowly, but surely, works its way out and allows me to enjoy the moment I am in, count the blessings I already possess and give my burdens to the ONE who truly cares and wants to take them away.

With that said, my new priorities... to spend time in HIS Word (the Bible) each day, count my blessings and praise HIM for Who HE is. The three things in life that yield a return far greater than anything else I can spend my time doing.

Matthew 11:30 (New International Version)

"For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

Galations 6:7-9 NIV Bible

Galations 6:7-9 (NIV Bible)

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

In pondering the above verse, I realize that I am reaping what I have sown for the past several years. Some good, some bad, but it gets me thinking. What if I lived every moment to please the Spirit of God? How would that look in my life and how would that change what I do in life... why I do things? I can only imagine the joy and blessings it would bring. I am not saying trials would still not come, but I am realizing that I would view the trials differently and also, give them over as quickly as possible to the Lord, instead of caring them so long by myself. For the fruit of the Spirit...

Galatians 5:22-23 (NIV Bible)

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.