Time & Living

Ah, another week gone! I know it has been said before me and will be said again after, but, wow, the time seems to go by faster and faster with each passing day! And I wonder, How am I spending them?
As I look back over this past week, I am saddened not by how much time I spent doing certain things, but by how much time I didn't spend doing the more important things.
My sister was telling us this evening of the importance of starting the day with prayer and communion with Jesus' consciously surrendering to God's plan for the day, and telling Him to have His way with you. This is something I have found to be true as well; when I give Him the plans I have for the day that He holds in His hands, I am successful in His plans! I can better think His thoughts, do His bidding, be more pliable to His workings in me.
Now, having said this, and knowing this - why then do I not always start the day in such a manner?? "Hope is for the morrow"; but I think it is for the very next second, as it is in so short a time that we can change our future. The following lines are the lyrics to a favorite song of mine, simple yet the hope of my heart; also, a short passage from a book of the Bible.

Before I start each day,
there is a special place
I love to go alone,
and seek my Savior's face.
I find wisdom in His Word
to instruct me in His will,
and I hear His gentle voice say:
My child, be still.

My quiet time alone
gives me power to obey;
my quiet time alone
with God, each day.
I talk with Him in prayer;
everyday He meets me there.
My quiet time alone with God.

Psalms 1-41
1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

I have a friend who once described a good morning as that of waking up to the Bible, saying, "Ah, good morning," kissing the precious Book.
I want to rest in the evening, with Jesus owning my last thought, and awake in the same manner.
May your rest be sweet.

Til Next Type~

~B