"No Time"

It has been a little while since I have posted anything, and a familiar voice by the Guess Who comes to mind: "No Time"! "I've got, got, got, got, got no time!"

It really is not as bad as it sounds. I certainly have time I have just not adjusted my events and activities enough to allow for posting!

Now that the introduction is over I wanted to jump right in with what I would like to call a reminder of the priorities! These are the things that I know that I should be meditating on, thinking about, and putting into practice...but for some reason or another (time) have gotten distracted! Let's face it, it happens to most of us most of the time. The trick is to recognize its presence and then reorient or re prioritize our priorities!

I want to point out some life lessons I recently read from Ron Luce's "The Power of One" devotional...stand up...be counted...make a difference! How many of us have at the center of our being the desire to make a difference? some of us even go to great strides just to make a difference by being different!

With that in mind i have to wonder if our focus gets out of place at times? I mean are we really supposed to be different in order to make a difference? I would answer the rhetorical questions: "not if we are being different for the sake of being different!".

I am reminded of the words of Jesus who, just before he catches the "heavenly escalator" ascends into the clouds, leaves us with this message: Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age.”

Peterson, Eugene H.: The Message : The Bible in Contemporary Language. Colorado Springs, Colo. : NavPress, 2003, S. Mt 28:18-20

Right from the start three concepts stick out to me: 1) we are to go out and train. 2) we are to distinguish or (mark out) Christ followers through their baptism. 3) we are to instruct them in the ways of Jesus!

I read a quot today by Mark Batterson in his book "In a Pit with a Lion on a Snow Day", it said How you think about God will determine who you become.

We have many opportunities in life...with each opportunity we have a choice to accept the challenges associated with those opportunities. I want to challenge you to think about the opportunities that God has placed before you, and calculate the risk of taking the challenge to become a world changer...to stand up...be counted...to make a difference! Our decisions will define who we become; and they stem from how we think about God!

One final thing that jumped out to me from Jesus last words on earth: "I am with you always"! He knew there would be challenges...but He is there in the midst!