Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day (Monday 06/14/10)

Today’s Devotional Written By A Young Women In Spiritual Boot Camp: Tracy Koweh, (Soon To Be Dixon)

Back to the Basics

Deuteronomy 6:3-5 (New Living Translation)

³ Listen closely, Israel, and be careful to obey. Then all will go well with you, and you will have many children in the land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you. ⁴ “Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.^{[a] 5} And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.

Today's message in the music comes from Jaheim's hit song "Trying to find my Back". The chorus ends with the line: Gotta find my way back, to you, to us, to love. I listened to this song over and over this past weekend and it wasn't until I stopped playing the song, that I was able to really hear the words; it helped put the last few months of my life into perspective.

Ever since the first "trial" came I had taken my eyes off the problem solver and put them on the problem. I had begun to stress instead of press. Delay doing instead of pray. Give up instead of dig in, until I had my moment of remembrance. That moment where it had hit me that God had brought me through worse and blessed me in my disbelief when I was in the adolescent stage of my spiritual relationship. But this time God was requiring me to not just look to Him, but to stay with Him. So many times we jump on the God wagon until He doesn't show up the way we are waiting or expecting Him to.

When do we mature enough to the place where we can admit we have secretly given up on God; we have gotten frustrated or doubted. Have thought maybe the grass is greener on satan's side of this ball game. I've gotten so mad at God for "abandoning" me in my most trying trial of my life, that I slowly started slipping away internally. On the outside I could pray, fast and quote some scripture, but on the inside my faith boat had begun to rock.

I don't know when it happened, but I am grateful that God opened my eyes to see that I had lost my way in Him. Grateful that I'd matured to the point of being tired of being stubborn and accepted the fact that I needed to find my way back to Him, because God didn't leave me, I was leaving Him. Today if you find yourself needing God and questioning where He is, maybe you need to check your position. It could be that God and your breakthrough are standing in the right place waiting on you to find you way back. So right now choose to get back to the basics. Read His Word daily, pray daily, tithe, give, trust and just be obedient. As the old school church says, He may not come when you want Him..............but He'll be on time.