Mornings can often be difficult. Some mornings are heavy especially on these cold mornings. The air is heavier, the blankets are heavier the gravitational pull around our beds make everything heavier.
I used to be a morning person but I am finding that the more late nights I have the less mornings excite me. I might have to start prioritzing bed time again.
Today's Scripture
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.
And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord.
For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.“ - Jeremiah 31:31-34
There is a gift that is coming. Will you be able to receive it? Does the gift even matter? I wonder sometimes if we, read I, really think that this gift is important. I mean we live in the future. Does something that orignated so long ago have any relevance?
The more I think about these things the more I am settled in the fact that yes it matters and has relevance to our lives today.
Standards shift, morals move, but how do you live in a world of sinking sand? The only way I know is to fix my eyes on a star that never moves. The same way the old navigators were guided by stars. The same way, topically, that the magi were lead to Christ as recorded in the Gospels.
There will be a morning where this life with its shifting morals and absolutes will give way to The Absolute. At that point the questions will be gone and The Answer will have come.
My prayer is that you would learn the answer before the exam comes.