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

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Looking to the Reward

Praise: The Almighty God. "O Lord God Almighty, who is like you? You are mighty, O Lord, and your faithfulness surrounds you." (Psalm 89:8)

Scripture: "He [Moses] considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward." (Heb 11:26) Touched this morning by this remarkable aspect of Moses' faith - rather than enjoy the blessing of being the son of Pharaoh's daughter (ironically through a kind of adoption), Moses chooses to align himself with God's people - something we can only do through 'adoption'. He rejects the immediate reward (in a worldly sense), for the eternal reward of his Father in heaven.

Moses had an awareness of his true identity, and therefore calling from God, that would have seemed like foolishness to the onlooker. It led to a life of struggle and even reproach. The writer connects this to Christ even before the Christ had come to earth in Jesus of Nazareth. Here we see something of the continuity of the purposes of God and his plan being worked out. But Moses chooses to embrace the call of Christ, regardless of the cost in the short term.

We need to beware of the pull of our world/culture which is preoccupied on the short-term and with personal pleasure and 'plenty'. The life of faith calls us to treat our life on this earth differently, not something of our own but something for which we have been made stewards for the glory of God. It begins though with our sense of identity, who we truly are in Christ, the beloved of God - allow this truth to wash over your spirit.

Help us Lord to see and be drawn to the greater wealth of knowing and serving Christ, trusting in that which is to come.

Prayer: Pray that apostolic leaders would be raised up within the Church, called by God and confirmed by God's people. Pray that we would all hear the call of Christ to go, "as the Father has sent me, so I am sending you". Pray that we would listen for the heartbeat of God for the identity, vision and mission of the Church. Thank God for his apostolic anointing and pray for more.
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