In today's devotional of Jesus Calling by Sarah Young, there was one thought that squarely hit me as summarizing my life of late: "Your capacity to experience Me is increasing, through My removal of debris and clutter from your heart." As I've said previously, heart symbolism has new meaning after having major surgery 18 months ago. Sadly, God indeed needed to remove debris and clutter from my life/heart. "Debris" in our lives consists of the true garbage of our sins and the emotional remnants of destruction that were strewn against others, even our family. The "clutter" excesses are striving for abundance in sinful ways or harboring jealousy of those that seemingly have too much of the good... whether it's money, health, appearance, fame, or success. Father, my prayer this day, is for You to eliminate the debris that my actions create. Help me to limit my desires to what is needed to further Your kingdom and thus keep me from abundance tha...
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A Year of Dramatic Change...
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About a year ago, my journey started to take a series of new twists and turns. Changes to my life that now retrospectively were inevitable and necessary; but as one would suspect, were definitely unwanted and unappreciated. My faith was and probably still is being assaulted, or at least the weak faith that I thought was much stronger. The newest "fork in the road" was the result of a health challenge with a life-altering surgery that rebooted my heart physically and, now I'm convinced, spiritually too. Faith is a gift... but in my "time of plenty", I took it for granted that my faith was more than enough. Being healthy, prosperous, and profoundly blessed was not leading me to a stronger walk with God. Oh, I surely was professing a deep faith but isn't that easy when everything is going well? Of course it is! Now, after never being a daily participant in prayer or self-reflection, I've morphed into a person that realizes that I should have been...