An hour a day keeps the doctor away

Spending time with God is life and health to my bones! It's amazing how easily we crowd out our day with so many things that God gets left out of the mix! And it's frightening how easily it happens... and how blind we are to see that we NEED God. Desperately. Totally. Every moment, every day.

Working out my resolution of spending an hour with God a day, today I spent time with Him reading a Tommy Tenney devotional my parents got for me for Christmas and meditating on Proverbs 3. And my soul is blessed, my spirit is lifted. God is good and He is worthy of praise!

Some thoughts from the journal of Josh:

• Proverbs 3:27-28
  Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due when it is in the power of your hand to do so. Do not say to your neighbor "Go and come back and tomorrow I will give it" when you have it with you.
  v. 9
  Honor the Lord with your possessions and with the firstfruits of all your increase
  Just as God gave in generosity, my prayer is that God would teach me to be generous in all my ways - to God and to man - in my thoughts, words, material possessions. God, give me opportunities to demonstrate YOUR generosity to others today. Bring glory to your name!
  
• v. 3-4
  Let not MERCY and TRUTH forsake you... find FAVOR and HIGH ESTEEM in the sight of GOD and MAN
  The commentary in my Bible was really cool... talking about truth. What is truth? I remember Pilate asking that. Well it says here:
  "Truth is something upon which a person can confidently stake his life"
  Wow! Truth. What do I stake my life on? What is truth on this earth? Everything changes. Only one thing stays the same: the Word of God! All fades except His word. What am I staking my life on? The infallible word of God. Truth.
  'emet : certainty, stability, rightness, trustworthiness. "to be FIRM, PERMANENT and ESTABLISHED".
  God, make me firm, permanent and established. And help me to show Your mercy to others.
  
• An interesting sidenote. The Hebrew 'emet is spelled with the first, middle and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet - thus, TRUTH upholds the first and last of God's creation and everything in between. Awesome, ain't it?
  
  My day is Yours.