Finding Your Center.

Finding Your Center. 

Time to turn the page.  Indeed, it is time to once again get your bearings … find your center … start tracking clearly.  Oh, this world does pull us off track on a daily basis, does it not?

‘No better mechanism to center us than the Word of God . . . truly, reading and growing in knowledge and application of Scripture makes us wiser, and a good deal more content!  Consider~

“Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet

         and a light unto my path.”     -the Psalmist

It is a guidebook for my behavior

  A compass that points to my purpose

    And a treasure trove of daily wisdom . . .

God’s Word has transformative power,

  as it tells me

    Why I am here,

      How to live,

        and how the story will end.

It describes the character of my loving God,

   the faces and interaction of the Trinity,

      and the fulfillment of a life well lived.

The Scriptures tell the love story

  of a Savior come to earth

    to love, to teach, to heal, to die-

      showing me the way to live . . .

         a better way, to be sure.

The challenge in 2013 is to find a way to get into God’s Word every day.  Really, life is full, and days are so busy!  Enter Morning Briefings—beginning our sixth year now, the five-day-a-week e-mail format is spreading globally every week.  In the last few days, five new subscribers: one from Tanzania, another from Brooklyn, New York, a brother from Kenya, one from Nigeria and another from Brazil.  Folks can read or listen to a podcast.

Prompted by the goings-on of loved ones, we have recently looked at loss, pain and God’s presence with us.  Accordingly, a new friend from Texas asked for some suggested reading or books she might get to strengthen and build her faith, particularly in her time of trial.  Truth is, I can give her no greater recommendation than God’s own word.  Truth is, God’s love is revealed to us in various ways through the pages of Scripture, and that is what gives us strength! 

In the next week, we will continue to journey along with Paul, this time looking over his shoulder as he writes to young Timothy. Friend, if you are a God follower, then you want to center yourself on him … daily.  And there is no better way to center yourself on your loving Heavenly Father than to partake of his word—EVERY DAY—and spend time talking with him as well.  Prayer and Bible study are as fundamental to your spiritual growth—you know, strengthening your faith--as food and water are to your physical well-being. 

So, go ahead … as you get a daily study, look up the referenced Scripture, read it—feast on God’s Word!  His Word is alive and powerful; there is no equivalent to it in all of earth.

Jesus said, I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly … you and I cannot know or experience the abundant life without knowing Jesus, our Center, and the precious Word that he gave us.  Amen.