Let’s be honest week 3

 
Hey friends.  I hope this week has been going well for you!

What do I have to do this week?  What do I have to do each day?  These are the questions I ask myself Sundays.  I love how it feels like a fresh start.  I often make promises to myself saying this week I’m getting back in the gym.  This week I’m completing that project I’ve been putting off.

Monday is usually the day that sets the tone for my week.  If I have an off Monday then I feel like I’m playing catch up the whole rest of the week.  If it’s productive then it allows for a snowball effect of awesomeness!

Last week was not one of those “awesome” weeks.  Nothing terrible happened.  Nothing bad at all happened actually, I just didn’t feel productive. None of my projects were finished.  I honestly cant tell you what I did get done. 

One evening I kind of laughed at myself as I was getting ready to relax in my room.  Per my usual routine I was getting a glass of water, a snack, and bringing upstairs my ipad, my phone, my laptop, and the video monitor.  Four things that I “require” to complete my daily activities and to relax at the end of the day.   I know I’m not the only one!  As I set everything down on my nightstand I had to move aside my bible. 

I began to watch tv, check facebook, text some people, send an email or two, scroll through twitter, check on caden in the monitor.  Read a couple blogs and was inspired by their creativity and words of wisdom.  Then I started feeling down on myself and upset that yet another week was passing and I wasn’t feeling accomplished.  What was I doing wrong?  Where was my motivation? 

I think yall are already following where I’m going with this.  It was right there.  Next to all the things I carry around and think detrimental to my day.  My Bible just chillin there, pushed aside, waiting for me to read again and find that real motivation and inspiration that doesn’t go away.
 
I shouldn’t be facing my day with ipads, and laptops, and my iphone.  I should be arming myself with the word of God.  My Bible should be on the TOP of that stack!

“Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge Him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”  -Hosea 6:3

Doesn’t that sound refreshing?  He will appear as surely as the sun rises! Like the spring rains that water the earth.  And all I have to do is acknowledge Him. 

I wasn’t acknowledging him in my daily routine.  We would do our prayers at mealtime and bed time but I wasn’t really looking to the Lord. 

I spent most of the day Sunday just reading the word. Just drinking it in.  And I have every day since.  And I can’t tell you how on fire I feel! I’m so on top of things and peaceful. Isn’t it funny how quickly this most important part of my day somehow gets pushed to the least and then to the not at all?  The enemy is so tricky!

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” –Philippians 4:13

ALL THINGS ya’ll. 

What tools make your day?  Where is your bible?  Do you carry it with you?  Or did you leave it in your other purse?

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