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| Green Lake Conference Center, Wisconsin |
Today I will continue to do what I have been doing for 44 years. Nothing has changed, and everything is changing.
I will...
ABIDE
SATURATE
LISTEN
OBEY
ABIDE
- I will follow Jesus' final instructions to his disciples, given in John chapters 14-16. The results will be that...
- I will experience his love
- I will experience his peace (not "peace" like our world gives)
- I will experience his joy
- With Christ in me I do the things that Jesus did
- I will not go up and down according to the circumstances of life
- I will not be a conference-dependent follower of Jesus
- I am a branch, connected to Jesus the True Vine
- My life will be fruit-bearing
- I will live in expectation. Today, and this week, could contain a watershed moment. Anything good and amazing can happen to the Jesus-follower who lives attached to Jesus, who lives "in Christ."
- I will take the Book and read
- I will meditate on the biblical text
- As for me, today and this week, my meditation is focused on 2 Corinthians
- I will slow-cook in the teriyaki sauce of God's thoughts and God's ways and God's promises
- I will shut my ears to our hyper-wordy world and attend to the deep words of Scripture
- I will fix my eyes, not on things seen, but on things unseen
- I will be illuminated by God's Spirit
- God's Spirit will escort my heart to its true home
- I will be alert
- I will live with ears wide open
- God has much to say to me this week
- Today, I have "ears to hear"
- When God speaks to me, I will write it down in my journal
- I will remember the words of the Lord, to me
- God will tell me that he loves me
- God will shepherd me
- God will lead me in paths of righteousness, not for my glory, but for his sake
- God will direct my paths
- God will make my paths straight
- The inner "GPS" ("God Positioning System") is turned on
- Where he leads me, I will follow
- I will experience life as an adventure
- In obedience to God, my life finds meaning and purpose
A.S.L.O.
