Today I woke up stressed. So, when I got out of class at lunch time, I took my Bible to Moe's and got a burrito. Because that's what I wanted to do. :)
I read Psalm 71, which truly encouraged me. Also, Psalm 105: 4 was a blessing.
"Look to the LORD and His strength. Seek His face always."
In the book I'm reading, the Will of God as a Way of Life, he speaks of the children of Israel and their search for freedom. They thought that being released from captivity would grant them freedom. But, Sittser writes, "There, in the desert, they found negative freedom--freedom from oppression. They were free to live on their own. But they had not yet discovered positive freedom--the freedom of living for God.
In the stresses of daily life that I'm currently facing (which is why my you may have seen in my last post that I'm having a bit of emotion and thought traffic), I constantly look to freedom from what I am doing. When the test is over, when the paper is written, when the event is taken care of, then I'll be free.
This is why today, Christ helped me remember that there is freedom in the living for Christ while I am in the living of my day.
Where I am and what I am doing and thinking and feeling now is important. Jesus, help me never to think that this moment isn't good enough.
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