Good Friday morning! Deer season opens tomorrow, don't travel out in the country without your safety orange on for the next week or so. Most of the time when someone asks, "are you like Jesus?" I have to say "yes, but not enough..." Do you pray like Jesus? Yes, but not enough. Do you mourn over sin like Jesus? Yes, but not enough. On and on it goes. Will I ever be completely like Jesus? Only if He makes me so. I cannot do this on my own for I will never know when the goal has been achieved, if it is even possible. We work hard during the race to come to Jesus, but the real work is done to us. The Holy Spirit makes us and molds us to be like Jesus over the course of a lifetime. The work is simply too important to leave to each of us on our own.
Today, as you go about your work or play, try to pray as often as you can. Last night in our Bible study group we learned more about prayer and discussed our feelings and thoughts about it. I think we all agreed that we could do more of it and do it more effectively. Once more we find an area that we must trust in the Holy Spirit to guide us, but Jesus also gave us a model to follow in Matthew 6. Use the Lord's Prayer to remind you of how to pray, but don't forsake the constant conversation with God that can happen any time in our lives. God has a great many interesting things to say to each of us, be sure to listen too!
God bless you on this breezy Friday!
Bucky
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