It’s Wednesday- Get Serious Before the Master

Happy Wednesday and I trust this finds you doing well today. I’m headed to Oklahoma City today. I’m speaking in the morning at Randall University’s chapel service as part of their mission’s conference. I drug out my old 1975 Harvester yearbook yesterday and looked at the pictures of the preachers from that year’s conference and thought “oh dear! So that’s my generation now.” I just hope with better hair. 


Yesterday, Ozzie was sick so he spent most of the day with me. At Nina’s if you are sick you get fluffy pillows and blankets and the remote. His day wasn’t awful but when Georgia came home, she found a message on her mirror that Mia had left for her. “Mom and Dad, Ozzie’s not sick. Ozzie’s fine. Can we read a book?” I guess she had her fill of her brother getting the royal treatment and her getting the leftovers. 

Do you ever feel like that? Like maybe God is giving someone else the royal treatment and you get the left overs? Do you ever just want to say “They are fine! They don’t need yet another favor! It’s me that needs it...what about me?” And when we get in that kind of rut, all of a sudden, we tend to not be so kind to the person who we think has been treated good either, do we? 

“Real wisdom, God’s wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced. You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.”

‭‭James‬ ‭3:17-18‬ ‭

The hard word of getting along with others. It’s not easy all the time and sometimes we want to be the 8-year old child and say “I need you God. I’m tired of trying to be nice!” But as it says we only enjoy the blessings of living right with God if we grow up and do that hard work. The instructions to make this all possible are found in the very next chapter. 

“So let God work his will in you. Yell a loud no to the Devil and watch him scamper. Say a quiet yes to God and he’ll be there in no time. Quit dabbling in sin. Purify your inner life. Quit playing the field. Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. The fun and games are over. Get serious, really serious. Get down on your knees before the Master; it’s the only way you’ll get on your feet.”

‭‭James‬ ‭4:7-10‬ ‭MSG‬‬

Get really serious before the Master...it’s the only way! Are you ready for that dear one? To be on your knees before the God of the Angel Armies? The One who makes all things new? The God of Wonders, beyond all majesty. 

Today, let’s be on our knees and be serious with our quiet yes, knowing that He is God. 

Love you friend, 

Pam

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