Prayer for the day: Lord thank you for the beauty of your creation. Thank you for allowing me to walk through life with so many great friends and such a great family. Grant me peace throughout my day and give me strength to stand against Satan and his forces. In your son Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Verse of the Day: "When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?" Psalm 8:3-4(ESV)
Worship Song of the Day: Friend of God by Israel Houghton.
As I sit to write this at the end of a long but fulfilling day, I can't help but reflect on the awe I feel that God has called me friend. Despite my iniquities and my sins, God saw fit to save me and call me into relationship with him.When I think of the sacrifice he made by sending his one and only son to die for me, I cannot help but praise him.
Today as I sat on my horse in the beauty of the environment around me, I thought how lucky I am and how much I have to be thankful for. Its awesome to think that everything I do can be considered an act of worship. Even the way I ride or the work I do at the stables can be considered an act of worship. God has blessed my wife and I with some amazing friends that own stables just outside of town. We have the chance to help them out and bless them with physical labor and they in turn bless us in more ways than we can count. I have noticed that the attitude with witch your work and play determines if it would be considered worship to God. The more time I spend out there the more my heart for service is opened. There was a time when the thought of physical labor,especially outside in the heat, would have made me plop right down on my couch and take a nap. Now I have found a new love for physical work that I didn't know existed in me and I can only attribute this to God working a change in my life.
There is still some complaining in my with house hold chores but I am trying to get better every day. When my wife asks me to do something I find myself grumbling less and wanting to do it to help make her day better. So my goal for tomorrow is to have a joyful heart for service at work tomorrow and to spend my lunch break reading the word instead of watching Netflix. Since this will likely be read by most of you on Thursday anyways I won't say goodnight but instead until next time.
Be Blessed by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords,
Brian Woodyard
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