Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches!
Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord!
Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Lamentations 2:19 ESV


Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Ready, Set, Go!

A Facebook friend and fellow Moms in Prayer mom, Michele Bristol Frank, earlier this morning updated her status with the reminder that just like preparing for a race, we have to prepare for each day at its start. How true! If we don't prepare ahead of time, we can soon find ourselves in the midst of a disordered, disorganized, muddled up mess. Has that happened to you? Or, should I ask, how often has that happened to you. I admit that it has happened to me.

I loved Michele's reminder that like preparing for a race, we have to get on our marks in prayer. What a great analogy. That would mean beginning each day by getting ready through spending time with the Lord, even if just a few moments of leaning back into His Presence.

Without getting ready, we don't deliberately set our hearts, our minds and our priorities on our Lord Jesus. And that means we run aimlessly (1 Corinthians 9:26 HCSB). But when all these things are set in their proper place, we can GO with the control, strength and speed needed to finish the race and receive the prize waiting at the end.

That's a key teaching of Scripture. It is the example Jesus gave us. He took time, even with crowds clamoring for His attention, to be with His Father so His life was ordered and purposeful. It even meant that He could be quiet when the most difficult time of His life came about.

Sometimes our lives as moms can be hectic to say the least whether our children are not yet taller than our waists or taller than us and going in so many different directions. While even a moment of leaning into the Presence of the Lord before our feet hit the floor can make the difference the rest of the day, it is absolutely essential to running our race that we take time to spend minutes with our God. It is there, just like Jesus, that we will find the strength of life we need to run our race with the endurance to win.

Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race,
but only one receives the prize?
Run in such a way to win the prize.
1 Corinthians 9:24 HCSB

As each day is a new day in our lives, we need these reminders to keep ourselves abiding in the One Who is our Forza di Vita, our Strength of Life.

The Lord is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the strength of my life;
Of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 27:1 (NKJ)


 

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