Instead of sleeping in…
So I totally did NOT start off too well this morning. I got home late (like around 11ish) and this is usually my bedtime. I’m not as hardcore as Loris -_- I’m extremely exhausted and knocked out. I woke up to a very rude bang on the door with a demand from my brother to take them to school. Being human, I shouted out of irritation that I needed sleep. Still, I knew I had to take them to school which made me so angry. I kept complaining that they could just go oldschool&walked to school. It’s NOT that far away. Really. The school is just a little over a mile away. WASTE of my gas. I threw like the biggest tantrum this morning and scolded my brother&sister for waking me up when I, clearly, didn’t have enough sleep last night. When I dropped them off they were saying bye to me and all I could say was “CLOSE THE DOOR.” Once I got home, I was so tired and I wanted to just go to sleep. But I hated sleeping in a bad mood. So dangit, I had no idea what to do.
Faaaacebook. So I went to the computer and I saw my Bible just sitting riiiight next to the mouse. I thought, “Really. I don’t know. I’m not in the best mood.”
But then I saw Loris wrote on my wall:
“hi, i hope you did your devotions! i can check now AHAHAHAHA. & friiiick i have so much energy. -___- i need to sleep. i might go jogging tomorrow. WEIRD, RIGHT?!”
Ugh, GG for keeping me accountable, man. (Again, good luck with the jogging.)
God has a way to get your attention, and He will have His way whether you like it or not. You know what, God has been really doing this to me lately. My mind would be totally somewhere else and I would be so caught up in something, yet He STILL finds a way to convict me. I’m not saying God is going to do this to me all the time, when He stops doing this, then I’m in big trouble. So I’m thankful I have this blog to remind me of my real priority.
For today’s devotion, I opened up two three websites:
http://www.rbc.org ; http://www.gty.org ; http://www.biblegateway.com
[Bible Gateway = easy access to other translations. Yeah!]
Both, rbc.org and gty.org talked about Christ’s crucifixion and I got a lot from both. A quote that RBC had in bold was:
The cross of Christ reveals the love of God at its best and the sin of the world at its worst.
It really does. Putting it into perspective, I woke up this morning and automatically sinned. It’s the first thing I did, I was not patient, kind, understanding (whoa, totally NOT love [ref: 1 Corinthians 13] )and what does the Bible say is the second greatest commandment? Matthew 22:39 straight up quotes Jesus and He says “Love your neighbor as yourself.” I already broke the second greatest commandment said by Jesus Himself. He even said in John 14:15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” OH my gosh that just sunk even deeper into my soul. Now this was just this morning.
Imagine all the other mornings I woke up like that, there are so much more.
Imagine that’s not the only sin committed in one day one LIFETIME.
Imagine: I’m not the only one. It’s everyone. Every single one of you 6.8 BILLION people.
That’s a whole lot of sin.
Jesus died for that. DIED. &Not only that, He went through a whole MESS of torture, pain, suffering, mocking, ridicule.. and I whine about hitting my knee into the corner of my desk. And since I JUST did that (what a fail), knowing in my point of view this is what I consider pain, I am convicted. Every single day, I take for granted of His mercy and His love. Even with the tiniest sin, it is still sin and God takes it very seriously even though we don’t. And, of course, God’s opinion is the ultimate one. So don’t argue. Now I actually am running out of time because I have class this morning and I got caught up in reading my Bible and doing this devotion. But, whoever is reading this, should read the “Strength For Today” devotional at http://www.gty.org because… well, just because you have the heart to seek His Word and because each and every day you want to do your best to get closer.
&I’ll leave you with a passage from Romans to reflect on because it gets me every single time :)
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have no been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through Him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life! Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now recerived reconciliation.
—Romans 5:6-11 (NIV)
I’m late for class!
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