Daily Journal: 26 June

What Am I Learning?

As I study the bible, I am impressed each day with something new. A new thought, a fresh way of thinking, something that triggers an area in my life God wants me to address, something I’ve been seeking.

God is a God of insight into my mind and heart and the Holy Spirit is able to pinpoint the area He’s wanting to draw attention to so that I take notice, and change and grow.

Each day, each week, each month, I need to be reviewing the things He’s showing me. I need to be applying it, recalling it. I need to be thinking about it and making changes to my life in accordance with what He’s saying.

Proverbs 4:23 (NCV)

Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.

It’s very special to know that the Maker of all is taking notice of me and cares so much that He wants to guide me personally. It’s important to honour Him and be diligent in applying those things He’s turning my mind toward.

Hebrews 6:7 (NIV)

Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.

God gives each one of us a purpose, a hope, and a calling. When we drink in God’s presence and follow His instructions in obedience and love we will produce a life that is useful and beneficial and we will receive His blessing.

Hebrews 6:10-12 (NIV)

God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized. We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

What are you learning? Are you gathering a guidebook, a life manual together for yourself of the things He’s saying to you? Are you allowing yourself to be daily led and directed by Him?

It isn’t all about what we’re doing. It begins with who we’re becoming.

I pray you will seek God to know what He would say if you ask Him, and spend time with Him reading the bible and waiting on His presence to stir you. I pray you will listen to those thoughts being impressed on your mind and hold them in your heart. I pray that you will make them part of you and that you will be guided by His truth and His plans for you.