Welcome! The purpose of this blog is to encourage followers of Jesus Christ to have daily time in which they intimately connect with the Lord Jesus. It includes an aspect of praise to God, some of how I sense the Lord speaking to me, and then a topic for prayer. My hope is that this blog will help you in three ways;

1. A balanced spiritual diet of Scripture reading - Using the lectionary readings for the day, this will give you a balance of passages from the Psalms, the Old Testament, the New Testament Epistles and the Gospels.Don't feel obliged to read all the passages ... unless you have the time and the inclination!

2. An example of Spiritual Journaling - I have committed to write this daily post, not for teaching purposes but as my daily spiritual journal, sharing what I hear from the Lord and how I experience Him with me each day.

3. An online discipler – One of the reasons that so many Christians do not have daily devotion is because they do not have a discipler. A discipler can help them build up this basic element of discipleship when they first become Christians. The best way for you is to have a discipler to walk with you for a certain period of time so that daily devotion become a good habit. Or, you may have a group of 2 or 3 people to encourage and be accountable to each other so that you won’t stop your daily devotion. I offer myself as your online disciple to walk with you daily to enrich your spiritual journey, trusting that you will in time, offer yourself to others.

So let us start this journey with Jesus our Lord . . . click here for today's readings

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Are you leaving or learning Christ?

Praise: The Everlasting Father, the Ancient of Days. "I praise you Lord, as the 'Ancient of Days' (Daniel 7:9), the 'Everlasting Father' (Isaiah 9:6), who lives forever and ever."

Scripture: "many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him." (John 6:66) Jesus certainly did not seem to be in the 'people-pleasing' business at times, nor was he preoccupied with simply gathering a large crowd or following. Yet these are two things that at times in my life have had undue priority, sadly. There seems no place in Jesus' economy for half-hearted discipleship, it was all or nothing. He graciously invited people to follow him, to be with him, to come as they are, but his purpose was that they be changed in the process so as to fully reorient their lives around him and his word. He seemed at the same time to be both very attractive (in his manner, his compassion), yet also at times shocking (would you not have been initially shocked by his command to eat his flesh and drink his blood?). People would either learn from him or leave for a safer/easier option ... most it seems chose the latter.

What are you choosing? Are you really hearing and responding to the call? Am I,I ask myself. We are reminded by the writer to the Hebrews to, "lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith" (Heb 12:1-2) So, what might be dragging you down, what in your life might you need to cast off? How do you need to simplify things or make room/time for Jesus and the things of his kingdom? Are you in it for the long haul and therefore setting your mind on things above? What needs to go?

Prayer: Pray that we would be a community characterized by life-giving fellowship. Pray for genuine care and honoring of one another in unity of spirit and the bond of peace. Thank God for one another and for the grace to love each other as Christ loved us.
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