Being home sick has confirmed something I never wanted to admit in all my years. I AM A WUSS!!!
When I tell my body to stop expelling air in copious amounts at various times it only accelerates the action and amounts (coughing).When I say I will be better tomorrow and I don't need to go to the doctor I wake up feeling the same (headache, stuffy nose,coughing my head off).
I definitely will attest that I can only make my body listen just so far. I feel like the words of Paul to Timothy in the age of gladiators and events at the Colosseum. Events which emulated the physical prowess and discipline of the mortal flesh. Accentuating pleasure over the eternal issues concerning the spirit.
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. 1 Timothy 4:8 out of the KJ version of Christian Scriptures as modern writers are prone to say.
Well I will win as I am saying to my body get well or I will discard you for a better model. Sure hope it listens for today. That will help me get prepared for Sunday. I am there in spirit but not yet in body
Mattheew 26:41 “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” This NIV rendering is where I am today.
It is not where I want to be on Sunday. I want to worship and lead worship with my worshiping family.
If I don't win just call me a wuss. Where I will be it won't matter anymore.
God Bless you and give abundant grace and peace is my prayer and blessing for you.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Really!!
Starting a journey through a scripture or subject study is easy. Saying that you will incorporate part of a study into your schedule is easy. Being excited the first few days is easy. It is all pretty easy when we talk about it and start doing it . Why then does it get so difficult as we enter the later stages?
One of the most wise saying may be, "Familiarity breeds contempt."
When a person isn't well known it is easy to admire and respect them. The better known they are the more we see their faults. They also see ours and don't always respond the way we would like them to. It is then that we began to struggle with them as a person.
The better known a truth is and the more it relates to our lives the more we get disinterested. The truth is still true but the impact on our life is not what we hoped it would be. All truths end up changing us or leaving us disappointed that it didn't provide more excitement and be more rewarding like it was at the start. Familiarity makes old friends seem like old shoes and truths like a familiar chair. They are great to have around but not when they begin to wear in unfamiliar places.
This year I want to bless my old friends more and to allow new truths to become old friends.
That will mean I must take another look and see the good in them and not look only for what I may gian from them. I must first invest myself before the interest can be collected on either a friendship, investment or new truth to experience and incorporate.
One of the most wise saying may be, "Familiarity breeds contempt."
When a person isn't well known it is easy to admire and respect them. The better known they are the more we see their faults. They also see ours and don't always respond the way we would like them to. It is then that we began to struggle with them as a person.
The better known a truth is and the more it relates to our lives the more we get disinterested. The truth is still true but the impact on our life is not what we hoped it would be. All truths end up changing us or leaving us disappointed that it didn't provide more excitement and be more rewarding like it was at the start. Familiarity makes old friends seem like old shoes and truths like a familiar chair. They are great to have around but not when they begin to wear in unfamiliar places.
This year I want to bless my old friends more and to allow new truths to become old friends.
That will mean I must take another look and see the good in them and not look only for what I may gian from them. I must first invest myself before the interest can be collected on either a friendship, investment or new truth to experience and incorporate.
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