“Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.”
–Alexander Moody Stuart

When I wake up in the morning it is usually my intent to spend some time with God by reading His Word. And to share it with you all more days than not. And at the end of the day I try to reflect on the day and my experiences with God. I do MUCH better in the morning than in the evening, but what of the time in the middle? That really is the bigger challenge for me. I do not seek Him with the same intentionality and purpose. He forces His way in and I am in awe at His timely revelations. I want more but do little about it.

This is that infamous time of year when I think about the coming year and what I would like to see happen. How will I weave Christ into those things? Into “everything” as Stuart says? It is not that I can do some things because of God. It is that I can NOTHING without God. If I really believe that, then He should be the very framework around which I plan all things. And that I should start with one day, and master that on a consistent basis, then one week, and build from there. A discipline before a habit. Walk before I run.

“I know that the LORD is great, that our Lord is greater than all gods. The LORD does whatever pleases him, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths. He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth; he sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.”
— Psalm 135:5-7, The New International Version