6/08/2004 07:08:09 AM|||Laura|||

Note to me: What happens when I skip a day? It becomes two or three. Saturday morning I started working, and by the time I got to my bible study it was just too late. My mind wasn't really on it, I was going through the motions. Literally nothing to write home about... Sunday was church, so I didn't do a bible study. Then yesterday it was very cursory, again nothing worth writing about. Way to pursue holiness, Laura!! Well, today I'm getting back to what is good, what is eternal. I had set up an e-Sword bible study plan to read a Psalm a day, starting today.

Psalm 1
Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is only in the Law of Jehovah; and in His Law he meditates day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivulets of water that brings forth its fruit in its seasons, and its leaf shall not wither, and all which he does shall be blessed. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For Jehovah knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

God's timing, as always, is perfect. Certainly nothing I touched yesterday was blessed... I don't want to engage in magical thinking here - I didn't do a bible study and so lost one client and one good prospect - but if I had honored God, would that have happened? I'm not sure... but I do know for sure that if I HAD honored God first yesterday morning by really giving Him my time and attention, I would have taken those losses in stride, because I would have had a fresh reminder that I am blessed no matter WHAT happens with Three Cords.

Psa 138:8 Jehovah will perfect His work in me; Your mercy, O Jehovah, endures forever; do not forsake the work of Your own hands.

HIS work in me, having nothing to do with web development. By putting work first, and relegating God to a mere item on my to-do list, I resisted the very Holy Spirit that I had just finished asking God for! What did Paul say, I do that which I hate? Yeah. Preach it, brother...

Eph 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed until the day of redemption.

Grieve
lupeō
loo-peh'-o
From G3077; to distress; reflexively or passively to be sad: - cause grief, grieve, be in heaviness, (be) sorrow (-ful), be (make) sorry.

Albert Barnes Notes on the Bible:

Do not act toward the Holy Spirit in a manner which would produce pain in the bosom of a friend who loves you.

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