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Something to think about as you start a new week

Monday Meditations are quick posts designed to get you thinking about God. They provide a fresh perspective as you jump into your routine.

 

Resolution: Honor God with Your Attitude

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It’s a new year. Perhaps you make resolutions. Here’s something to consider — A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot. Proverbs 14:30
Resolve to honor God with your attitude

Your attitude.
Your responses.
The things you think.
The things you feel.

How do we honor God with them?
Consider the following questions.

Does the way we think honor God?
Are we peaceful, positive, trusting?
Do we see our situations as an opportunity for God to work?
Are we confident knowing He is in control?

Do we apply ourselves to becoming more like Christ?
Or do we just react?
Do we seize the opportunity to grow through adversity?
Or complain about our lot?

Do we believe an easy life should be a perk of obedience?
Are we offended when things are hard?

Are we easily stressed?
Do we look at others and wish for their lives?
Do we measure ourselves against others
And find we come up short?

Do we long to be somewhere else, doing something else?
Do we feel a sense of accomplishment or frustration?
Do we sleep well and wake up recharged?

Are our prayers full of complaints, worries and demands?
Or are we more focused on praise and thanksgiving?

Have we absorbed the attitude of the culture we live in or the media we consume?
Do we surround ourselves with those who raise our spirits or those who weigh them down?
Do others see the love of Jesus in us and through us?

Resolve to “Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus.” Philippians 2:5


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Filed Under: Monday Meditations Tagged With: Philippians, Proverbs, Resolutions series

Resolution: Honor God with Your Time

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It’s a new year. Perhaps you make resolutions. Here’s another you may want to add about how you spend your time — Apply yourself to discipline and listen to words of knowledge. Proverbs 23:12

Your time.
Your schedule.
The things you do.
The things you enjoy.

How do we honor God with them?
Consider the following questions.

Does the way we spend our time honor God?
Are we active, serving, studious?
Do we treat each day as a stewardship from God?
As though He has entrusted the hours to us?

Do we apply ourselves to learning more about Him?
Or do we just get by?
Do we seize the opportunity to serve others
Or pursue our own interests?

Do our hobbies help us serve God
Or distract us from Him?

Are we focused on leisure?
Do we fill our schedules with more and more?
How much time do we spend running here and there
Compared to enjoying the presence of God?

Are we exhausted or stressed?
Do we feel a sense of accomplishment or frustration?
Are we frugal or extravagant?

Are we committed to growing as believers?
Are we looking for opportunities?
Do we spend time with those who can help us grow?

Is carrying out His commission a priority?
Do we include it when we set our goals?
Do we make realizing our call a priority?

Resolve to “work the works of him who sent [you] while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. (John 9:4)

Filed Under: Monday Meditations Tagged With: Proverbs, Resolutions series

Resolution: Honor God With Your Possessions

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It’s a new year. Perhaps you make resolutions. Here’s one you may want to add — Honor the Lord with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest; Proverbs 3:9

Your possessions.
Your wealth.
The things you have.
The things you earn.

How do we honor God with them?
Consider the following questions.

Does our work honor God?
Are we diligent, honest, and dependable?
Do we work as though God were our supervisor?
As though He would give us our evaluation?

Does our work ethic set us apart?
Or do we just get by?
Is our job an opportunity to serve others
Or further our interests?

Do our possessions help us serve God
Or distract us from Him?

Are we focused on acquisition?
Do we need more and more space to hold it?
How much time do we spend caring for things
Compared to caring for others?

Are we generous or tight?
Do we save or does money run through our fingers?
Are we frugal or extravagant?

Where do we do business?
Where do we invest?
Whom and what do we support?

Is our faith and security in our retirement?
Is our confidence in the economy?
Do we worry about our debt?

Resolve not to set your “hope on the uncertainty of wealth, but on God, who richly provides us with all things to enjoy.” 1 Timothy 6:17

Filed Under: Monday Meditations Tagged With: Proverbs, Resolutions series

Why Christmas: The Ransom

By Paula Wiseman

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“For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45

This is a radical statement.
Kings don’t serve.
God is worshiped.
But Jesus came to serve
And Jesus came to become the ransom to buy our freedom.

In the Old Testament, it was the money paid to redeem a mortgage or a firstborn.
Sometimes it was a half-shekel.
In New Testament times the ransom bought a slave’s freedom.
It returned a prisoner of war to his home and family.
This time the ransom was the life of the Son of God.

That is an audacious demand.
But then, our sins are scandalously brazen.
And our destiny was utterly hopeless.
But the love of God is unfathomably deep
And the willingness of Jesus Christ is staggeringly unwavering.

So He came
Not to be served
But to serve
And give His life as a ransom.

Make certain you are one of the ransomed.


Read the other Why Christmas posts

Filed Under: Monday Meditations Tagged With: Christmas, Mark, Why Christmas series

Why Christmas: Abundant Life

By Paula

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“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” John 10:10

Abundant. My Greek dictionary says – superabundant in quantity, superior in quality. It means lavish, or exceeding expectation.

Jesus came AS a baby, but that wasn’t the point. The baby stuff was a means to an end.

There was a purpose behind it.

The amazing thing … the purpose was for us.

To give us Life, and not just air in our lungs and food in our bellies.

Not even health and wealth.

No, life beyond our imagination, beyond our most audacious dreams, beyond our most daring hopes.

The Eternal Savior took on a finite mortal body in order to give us finite mortals an abundant life, an eternity.

Now that’s a Christmas gift.

Filed Under: Monday Meditations Tagged With: Christmas, John, Why Christmas series

Why Christmas: To Seek and Save the Lost

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“For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19:10

We understand the saving.
We rest in the assurance that He saved us and we should.

But first He came looking for us.

It’s our nature to hide from God.
It goes back to the Garden.

God didn’t leave us hidden and hopeless.

He took action.

He sent Jesus.

He found us.

And then He saved us.

That’s why Christmas is good news of great joy for all people!

Filed Under: Monday Meditations Tagged With: Christmas, Luke, Why Christmas series

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