Greetings to in the beautiful, powerful, and wonderful name of Jesus Christ – THE Risen Saviour! What a beautiful morning in the Kingdom – thank you, Father, for creating this day for us. We rejoice in Your creative ability and Your attention to detail…and we sing praises to Your name! I trust that you had a blessed weekend and Monday in spite of less than comfortable weather. I will be praying for you today, asking Father to touch your life with a special measure of well-being and courage and grace.
This morning I learned a new buzzword from the newspaper: “time-blindness” …and it defines the feeling that captivates us when we sense that time is stretching out ahead of us. Time-blindness creates a specific wear and tear on our bodies, minds, and emotions. It can be applied to this period of “lockdown” that we are in.
Just to add to that thought, in my reading I came across an interesting comment. In a survey of human activity it was determined that an average person will spend 93% of their time indoors – which includes modes of travel and work environments. It means that a person who lives to be 75 they will spend 69.75 years in an artificial atmosphere. It means we will miss the beauty of God’s creation in all of its variety. Would sooner sit in the sunshine or watch it on a television program?
Oddly enough these comments fit into a thought expressed in one of my devotions which said: …a most analytical approach to the Christian life, one that is stable in doctrines and disciplines but lives without personal experience, denies the opportunity for risk, and resists emotional expression and passion. Christianity was never to be known by its disciplines. It’s to be known by its passion; and those without passion are in far more danger than they know. – Bill Johnson, Dreaming With God.
Long we have known that there is quite a difference between knowing about God and knowing God. There is quite a difference between being in a beautiful park on a sunny day and looking at a photograph of the same. There is quite a difference between looking at an advertisement for a fully-loaded pizza and having one sitting on the table in front of you. We need more than doctrines and disciplines…not just holding the Bible in our hands when we could have communion with the living Word of God.
Something to think about — have a blessed day!