this is how i’m doing: in case you were wondering…

It’s the bookmark that always betrays me. One of the main points of having a daily devotional book is to read from it each day — never much, just a page. One page, everyday, for a year and then repeat. Well the problem with this format is that it becomes VERY apparent when you’ve missed a few days or even weeks. The bookmark is exactly where I left it (which is the point of a bookmark I suppose). From today’s devotional:

“No true Christian can be habitually more engaged in the service of the world and of sin, than in the service of God. His obedience, though not perfect, is habitual.” — A.W. Tozer

I tend to be a bit of an extremist in the sense that I like things to be black and white, one or the other, all or nothing. I like rules and boundaries, I like my bosses to tell me exactly what they expect, I like clients to tell me exactly what they want. This has caused some bumps along my spiritual journey — more than bumps, more like a spiritual roller coaster of highest highs and the lowest lows. When I’m experiencing freedom from a particular sin I’m on cloud nine — It couldn’t be any better, but when I’m stumbling around in the darkness of sin I feel like anything but a child of God. Life is very black and white, but there is a lot of gray when moving from black to white — from darkness to light. Sanctification is a process that won’t end till death! Growth is a process that can only be measured over a period of time — the longer the period the more accurate it becomes.

So, sure I missed a few dozen days in my devotional this year. If the goal is to read every devotion in the book within a year, I’ve failed. But if my goal is to grow in discipline, obedience and to glean nuggets of truth then it’s too early to measure — In the next 10 years I’m certain I’ll get to those days I “missed”.

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