You know it gets so easy to become settled into a routine. So many times in life, we have so much going on that it is nearly impossible to change even one small thing without the most energy and resources. For instance, have you ever gotten a call from a friend and found that your calendar is so crammed with all the stuff you always have going that you cannot find time to get together for weeks or even months?
You have conference calls, meetings, kids sports practices or extracurricular activities that have been scheduled for months or the immoveable dates such as birthdays, anniversaries, other peoples’ weddings, etc. And someone says, “hey you want to get coffee or dinner?” And you cannot work out a time for it.
How did we get so busy? How did we get so overwhelmed with the mundane? Isn’t it easier to just go with the flow and do what is on the schedule or what feels like life-cruise-control. However, at the same time, do you ever go to bed with the gnawing feeling that there should be more to life than just what you are doing over and over every day?
I think that is why so many people break at mid-life and do crazy things such as affairs and such. It’s like they have gotten so tired of the routine that they just snap one day and want adventure and the adrenaline rush again. They just want that life giving feeling they had in their younger years.
Here’s a thought. Why not deal with the routine here and now? Why not fight the mundane and have adventure now? Why not incorporate your family and spouse in the daily adventure?
I have a radical idea. Stop right now and determine to do something different. Don’t have that train wreck. Have adventure and life every day. It is possible to cultivate a conversation with GOD by taking just 7 minutes to start with every day and be still and meditate on a teaching or Scripture. Start with an online devotional like, Blackaby’s Daily Devotional Blog. Or even try Oswald Chambers’ daily devotional called, “My Utmost for His Highest.” Or for you ladies out there, maybe try Joyce Meyer’s daily devotional.
Take 7 minutes. Tell GOD, “this time is YOURS, LORD. Come meet with me. I have set it apart to you…” Take the devotional you are using and read it. Dig deeper into the passage in the Bible it mentions. Write down what spoke to you the most. Then turn that into a prayer and ask GOD to reveal to you that day what it means in life.
And then here is my favorite part. This is where the ADVENTURE begins. Before you leave that 7 minute moment, imagine in your head how GOD may invite you to join HIM. Every single day GOD is doing something around us. Are we looking to join HIM? Are we paying attention to what HE is doing? The Bible says, “…the Father is always at work…”
If HE is always at work and HE is everywhere, we can assume that there are places to join HIM in that work all day long, everywhere we go. So, look around and ask Holy Spirit all day long, “Where are you working?”
At some point, HE will show you. Expect it!!!!!
It may be someone saying, “I need you to pray for…” Stop right there and pray. That is where HE is working. It may be someone that needs the door held for them. Run and grab that door and when they say, “thank you,” respond with a word of encouragement. Maybe even a “GOD bless you…”
It could be a disheartened sales clerk. Walk up and pull a Lydia Grace Hedrick and say, “Do you know Jesus loves you?” I tell you what, that one line from a 4 year old takes grown adults to tears in two seconds, true story.
Why live mundane any longer? Expect interruptions. Expect adventure. You think I have stories??? Well, yes I do. But you will have better ones!!!!!
Cultivate relationship with GOD and have adventure today.
Blessings all!
just dustin
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