Soma

Well, it’s Friday and my brain is just about fried.  It’s been a week of a lot of thinking and processing, reading and planning…but very little blogging.  For that, I appologize.

With the busyness of life, we all tend to not get everything done we hope to.  We end days with things still hanging over our heads.  We lay in bed desperately trying to shut our minds off, and then we wake up in the morning with a to-do list the size of the Los Angeles Dodger’s payroll after they resign Manny running through our heads before we take our first sip of morning coffee.  Mornings are a great measure for how we are dealing with life.  They’re a great measure of what our true priorities are.  If we wake up captivated by who God is and what He’s called us to, our day will probably be filled with realizations of His presence.  If we wake up captivated by our to-do list or by a project at work or school, it may be 6:00pm before we as much as acknowledge God’s presence.  This is why one of my favorite quotes from George Mueller is hanging on a bulletin board right next to my desk.  It haunts me.  When I wake up early and want to get right to work because of all the pressing responsibilities of the day, it sits there directly to my left like an angel on my shoulder shaking his head with disapointment.  And by haunting me, it helps me to refocus on truth.

I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my sould happy in the Lord.  The firs thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my sould into a happy state, and how my inner man may be nourished…I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God and meditation on it.

I hope it haunts you too.