Do some days feel like they will never end? Do you feel like you have been pulled in every direction possible? It's then that we need to turn to the bible and look to Jesus for strength. People think that just getting away will help with some work issue or sitting back and watching a movie after a long day will help take all the stress away. Well, it might in some ways but we really should spend that time in spiritual thoughts and reading God's word. The world tries to tell you that their things will help with this and that will help you with something else but we will never find that perfect thing in the world. If we started searching for that great thing 100 years ago we would still be looking now. That is how fulfilling the world is. All that would bring to us is depression because we can't ever find the thing that we think will bring us joy. The world also says that we deserve something. "Oh you deserve that trip to Hawaii or some resort". We don't deserve anything and the only way that we even live is from the grace of God.
Another thing is Self-denial. When we choose to do something fun over doing something that we know that God would want us to do then we are thinking of ourselves over God. We need to deny ourselves and read the bible or pray. We think that we deserve a break and that we need to sit back and relax. How many times do you crawl into bed and you remember that you forgot your prayers. Do you get out of bed and say you prayers? Or do you stay in bed and fall asleep? God is jealous for our love and wants all our love for himself. This may seem selfish but who made us? God. Then it is he who really deserves all our love and devotion.
Megan
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