Obedience is not a Feeling

My sister left this morning :( I had some time before church to clean around the house and put some things away from my boxes (yes, I moved into this house in Sept.). I realized how easy tasks are once you just get started. I have been struggling with discipline in my relationship with Christ. I DESIRE to meet with God daily because I love Him, but I often find the end of the day coming sooner than I expected and I go to bed with regret that I made no time for God. I admire my sister for her consistency in prayer and worship, and we talked about how she doesn't always FEEL like doing those things. She just knows that she wants to, so she makes it a priority in her life. Then, I went to church this morning and the message was the exact same thing. The statements that hit me the most were: "Obedience is not a feeling" and "Love (for God) follows obedience". This essentially means that I should do the things that I KNOW I want to do (like daily prayer, worship, and communion with Jesus)--even when I don't feel like it--because the good feelings/emotion will come once I start. This may seem obvious, but it finally hit home with the housework & church message. God often teaches me with object lessons--it is then that they stick!

Relaxation/Frustration

Have you ever noticed that when you finally slow down and relax, you see all the things that you have let slide? After a long and hard semester teaching, I finally sat down at my house to relax a bit on my Christmas break. As soon as I did that, I took a look around and realized that I was surrounded by a tornado of papers, bills, junk...from the past 3 months. I tried to renew the 3 month old subscription to the computer virus protector, only to spend 5 hours figuring out how to install it. My relaxation turned quickly to frustration when I glanced at the clock and realized that I had spent way to long on way too nothing! Anyway, my sister is coming to visit, so I feel the relaxation coming back...

Just Starting

I thought this was a cool idea and decided to start one. It will take me a while to do anything about it--I will ride off of the fact that I just started one for weeks. Maybe months! :P