Living In Your Best, Not Just Visiting It…
Jeremiah 29:11-13 (New Living Translation)
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.
Jeremiah 29:11-13 (King James Version)
11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
This weekend we are having company. As I awakened this morning running through a mental list of things I still had yet to do to prepare, it struck me like a ton of bricks. I noticed that not just myself, but my closest women friends, we sort of all have this habit of wanting everything to be near perfect. We run around dusting things that we do not normally dust and changing out things or redecorating areas of our house we know will be frequented by our guest, and let us not even get started on the personal adaptations we make to ensure that we are our best, the hair, the clothes, the make up, and let us not forget the perfect dress or suit and the shoes to set it off. It can be crazy and even mind boggling. But why don’t we see the need to be at our best just because God made us or allowed to be? Because we do not value our daily place in the universe or who we are enough to do so, this is not for all but it is often the case.
If we would and could only grasp the concept that God wants us to bring our “A game” all the time, then we would see the manifestation of His best in us and in the life that we lead. This is not true just in our natural lives but in our spiritual lives. Sunday is God’s day of visitation for many of us. It is all the Jesus we see all week long. We know He will visit us on Sunday, because we allow Him in on Sunday and we make ourselves accessible. But what about the rest of the week, should He not “get at us” the rest of the week. Should He not receive our Sunday best everyday of the week? He should because we get His. I can hear some of you asking “what are you talking about. He rose on a Sunday, with all power in His hands and victory over sin and the grave in His possession and salvations plan well in hand ( the best, I’d like to see any of us do better). So again I ask should He not get our best EVERYDAY? Yes, emphatically He should! We should value our God, Our Lord and Our Savior more than for Him just to be a afternoon delight or a one night stand once a week.
Today as you enter the close of another week and enter into the rest of the weekend, think about where you are living. Are you living in substandard in your natural and spiritual life, and only visiting the best on occasion? If you find this is you it is time for an extreme make over. It is time to change your garments whether of praise or exterior, and clean up the house, whether it is where you reside or where the Holy Spirit is resident and start living like you have a future and a hope and a God that loves you and a God that you love just as much in return!
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