My wife was in a real estate meeting yesterday and one of the agents mentioned that he'd been in a workshop setting and the speaker asked if anyone woke up at the same time every night. He said he woke up at 4:29am EVERY day. Of course he tried to go back to sleep.
This intrigued my wife because she has been waking up at the same time too. Her agent friend then told her that the speaker at this scientific workshop said this is a great opportunity.The opportunity is that when you wake up - GET UP!
You may only get up for a short while, but as you wake up and get up take the time to read, pray, meditate or write because this is your optimum moment for your day! Your mind and spirit are at their best.
My wife and I are tuned into a spiritual leader named Chuck Pierce. Many believe he is a modern day prophet and hears from God. Chuck recently said that the acient Jewish people had WATCHMEN who took watches over the cities during the night. He went on to say that God is calling for WATCHMEN (and women) to be spiritually alert to hear what God would say to our spirit in the nightseasons.All sounded kind of wierd. That is until science and religion stood side by side and the possibility of reality hit the scene of my thinking.
So at 4:47 am this morning guess who awoke - wide awake. You got it, and as all through the house not a creature was stirring - but me - I sprung to my feet, but instead of looking for Santa, I was looking to see what might happen next.I wandered into my study and sat at my computer. I then noticed that the little green light on the printer was blinking at me.
That's not unusual because it's suppossed to do that , however, it seldom prints.The printer is new but the computer is old and has suffered at the hands of my kids and their computer software. Unfortunalty it has confussed the paths in my computers brains and most of the time the printer doesn't know what the computer is thinking and won't print.
I literally felt like God was sending me a message in my spirit or my mind - or maybe both. Anyway, MY computer (my brain) had been corupted just yesterday at an outside resturante.
There we were sitting in the warm 90 degree sun light eating toco's when a very good looking woman in a short skirt sat down right in front of us.Of course, not being blind, I noticed she had been blessed by God with very long legs. At that same moment another very attractive young lady in even a shorter skirt sat down at the table across from her. She too had legs, only more of them were visable.
Suddenly, I was sexually alerted and interested in business that was none of mine.I had allowed my heart and mind to go unguarded. What was I guarding? Well, for starters, my marriage. Next, my heart for God, and finally, my own concience.
Now don't get me wrong, I am not dead or blind and the pleasure was real - however, short lived as guilt, condemnation and confussion began to flood my computer (my mind) and my printer (my concience) was going haywire.My solution? Just call it for what it was... I had missed perfection. (some call it sin - but then sin is a bit out of date as a definition or maybe it's really a good definition considering it's a 14th century sports term for archery and missing the bullseye or missing perfection).
Meanwhile, back at my sanity, I was noticing my personal FREEDOM had vanished! I felt this uneasy, confused and guilty feeling. What was I to do since I didn't like this feeling and since I wanted to keep my relationship with my wife and with my God?
Well, the first thing I did was remember a verse or two from the Bible. 1 John chapter 1 says in about verse 7: IF we walk in the light as Jesus is in the light that we can have good relationship with people without wanting to use them, and that the blood Jesus shed at the cross for anyone who would believe it was shed for them, and they could be FREE!FREE is good.
Been there done free. However, at this moment I was not free. So I simply took the Bible as the word of God for me since the very next verses in this reading said to CONFESS my MISSING THE BULLS EYE (or sinning against PERFECTION or God) and that by simply owning up to my failure to be as perfect as God, Jesus would accept His shed blood and my faith in that transaction as my forgiveness and approval before His Father, God.
The proof is in the pudding. I messed up. I decided to own my problem and go one step further, I gave it to Jesus and accepted his shed Blood for my forgiveness with God.Result? No more oppression, depression or confusion and by the way NO MORE CONDEMNATION. I am FREE again. The good news is that He will always be there to encourage me to own my fault and then He will encourage me to give it to Him and be free again.
THINK ABOUT IT!
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