Side Tracked--- Forgotten God by Francis Chan

I went to open my readings today and I saw Forgotten God sitting on my desk there could have been cobwebs.

I thought a little and decided to read from that today because I don't want reading so many passages every day to become a chore. The title of the book is so appropriate.

If I could summarize quickly it's about how we focus on God and Jesus but many times forget the other third, the Holy Spirit and how he is working in our lives.

I wanted to try and blog as I read so I can write more stuff down instead of after when I forget some things I want to say.

I just opened up to my bookmark and the chapter title is called "Forget about His Will for your Life!" What possibly could this be about.

The opening quote, 

"And to expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence." 

-A.W. Tozer

Within the first few pages he tosses out a challenge that I have to share! So many people get caught saying, "I wish I knew God's will in my life." When in fact God cares more about the momentary things that you do, not your 5 year plan. I can think of countless references in the Bible where this is apparent. Jesus said take up your nets and follow me! God told Abraham to get up and go and he did. God told Noah to build an ark and he did. They did as He said and they threw out that 5 year plan and just did it.

He calls out the people who say I'm trying to figure out what God wants me to do. His challenge is: instead of searching and praying for God's will in your life; pray for the Holy Spirit to lead your life now...today and you'll be led there.

After reading, my mind was blown and I am out of words. So I'll leave you with one quote.

"I want nothing more than to live in total surrender and abandonment to the Spirit every moment I have left on this earth." 

Just imagine what the world would be like if Christians could whole heartedly say this. Better yet imagine if you and I could just say that for ourselves.

Spring Break

Hey Blog,

It's been a long time. Spring break hit and a lot of habits stayed at school as I left for home...not cool. Anyways I'm back and I figured I'd start with a little warm up blog to get prepared for tomorrow.

I actually wanted to share something I found interesting. As I've been P90Xing: your mind, body, and heart really get into it and get used to the rhythm. The days you are too busy or mess up and forget about your workout, you actually feel pretty gross because your breaking that pattern.
Back before the P90X i could go a week without working out and still feel fine. It's that rhythm that's so crucial in my life. You probably can see where I'm going with this by now.
It's the same thing with those daily devos, you get that rhythm going and you feel spiritually gross if you miss a day! At first it sounded kind of depressing calling yourself spiritually gross, but I think it's a good thing to feel if you do miss a day. Your body is so used to being fed the Word that it gets hungry if you stop. I think it's such a good place to be. When I was confronted about it over break I couldn't even look them in the eye because I felt gross! Anyways just some food for thought.

I hope if your not in the Word as much as you'd like this convicts you a little bit, it's convicting me as I'm writing it. I'll cia tomorrow!