What are the things you need to do, daily? Make a list; toiletries, breathe, dress (if you are going out and don’t want arrested), eat and drink (eventually but not daily), anything else? List the things you have to do. Consider the things God says happen and should happen daily.
Old buckets were made of thin planks called staves side by side and held together by rings. You could only fill water up to the lowest stave. Find your lowest stave, your one thing and allow the increase to come.
Hundreds of prophecies in the Old Testament foretelling and showing Jesus Christ. They said who he would be, what he would do and even where and to whom he would be born. Most missed it. Even well into his ministry most his disciples missed it. After his death they were still sheep wandering with no shepherd.
This is a journal. It is a witness and testimony. It is a companion. Whitman kept one as did Byron. Hemingway kept a journal. Darwin journaled. Influencial men and women through time have treasured the significance of pen and paper, not to just capture a fiction but capture their moment.
Three things form our perspective; context, experience and knowledge. Where you are, what you know and where you have been. Each of these factors form how we see and interprete everything, create paradigms and worldviews.
The church is supposed to be the beacon of light to people wandering in the darkness with bloody thumbs and chagrinned foreheads. While the world screams, “there must be a better way,” the church is to be declaring, “We have a better way.”
