How often do we live life on autopilot mode? We wake up, check up our phone, and dread work. We settle into the mundane day-to-day and complain life is a bore. We brush past people and co-workers. We go home, we turn our Netflix to let our mind mindlessly wander.
What if…
We start with a different choice each day. To live more mindfully. To notice the sunrise and marvel at the beauty of God’s creation. To thank Him for breakfast and the breath in our lungs. To delight that we’re given good works to make meaning of. To greet a person with a genuine, heart-warming smile. To go home and worship Him for the gift of rest and loved ones.
How will life change if you are..
Joyful.
Expectant.
Thankful.
Worshipful.
With millisecond distractions directed on us, we swing on extremes of living in the past or fantasizing of the future—both of which steals the joy of the present.
At a coffee shop across my home, my bestfriend Kezia reminded me, “If you have time to worry, then you have time to worship”
Worship centers us on the here and now.
But what is worship, you ask. Worship is that in Him we move and live and have our being (Acts 17:28). With eyes gazed on the blessings and our lips filled with praise and thanksgiving, we choose to slow down and be intentional to live into God’s desire for us for the day.
Psalm 32:8 - “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.”
Living intentionality requires us to fix our eyes above, as Paul instructs us in the book of Colossians. We put on compassion, meekness, forgiveness, and love; that the peace of Christ will rule in our hearts, to which indeed we were called in one body.
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Jesus, I choose You, again and again. I choose life to the fullest, and it’s only You who are able to give that. Whom shall we turn to? for you have the word of eternal life. Teach me Your way and help me not to miss this gift of life you’ve given.
In whatever you, friends, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him (Col 3:17),
Tam
He has taught me to renew my mind, my heart & my strength so that I can live in God’s purpose for me. With a year older, I am a lot less naive and a lot more hopeful still. There’s one thing that never left me, that is wonder. For all this year has to unveil, here is my prayer to the Lord: