Be still in My Presence, even though countless tasks clamor for your attention. Nothing is as important as spending time with Me. While you wait in My Presence, I do My best work within you: transforming you by the renewing of your mind. If you skimp on this time with Me, you may plunge headlong into the wrong activities, missing the richness of what I have planned for you.
Do not seek Me primarily for what I can give you. Remember that I, the Giver, am infinitely greater than any gift I might impart to you. Thought I delight in blessing My children, I am deeply grieved when My blessings become idols in their hearts. Anything can be an idol of it distracts you from Me as your First Love. When I am the ultimate Desire of your heart, you are safe from the danger of idolatry. As you wait in My Presence, enjoy the greatest fight of all: Christ in you, the hope of Glory!!
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will. ~Romans 12:2
Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. ~Revelation 2:4
To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. ~Colossians 1:27
My thoughts:
How many times have I let time with my Father slide by? More than I would really like to admit. I need to get back to my First Love, to spend time with Him, and Him alone! I do not want Him to hold that against me!!
This is the second time in the last month that I have read that verse from Revelation… maybe He is trying to tell me something!!
Father I am so sorry I haven’t been spending time with you like I need to. I need to be more open to You, to listen to You more and do what You ask of me! Please Father forgive me for not being who I know I should be, who You want me to be! You are my First Love and I need to come back to You!
In Your loving name
Amen
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