In my world, navigating my spiritual life sometimes feels like a Roller Coaster.  I go from the mountaintop to the valley back to the mountaintop.

As I sat in prayer, my thought was:  Doug, Stay In Your Lane

For me, staying in your lane involves three things:

  1.  Pliability
  2.  Hope
  3.  Dwelling

Pliability is allowing Jesus to change your heart daily.  It means that we are willing to adjust and repent, that we are willing to never use the excuse “that’s just who I am” as we navigate life’s challenges.  As we get older, we lose our flexibility.  This is not just physically, it is in life.  We want things to be exactly the way that we see them to be.  God wants us to pick up our cross daily.  As I used to tell my children:  “God loves you too much to allow you to do that.”  Amen.  

John 5 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” 

7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

My prayer today is:  “Come and know me, Father.  Find every offensive way in me.  Mold my heart to follow You.”

Hope is constantly opposing the enemy’s plan to tell us we have nothing in our future.  In Jesus, we have an eternal future with nothing but good.

Matthew 7 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

As we navigate life, we have everlasting hope.  The problems here will not exist in the Kingdom.  I am constantly taken aback by Dan Piper’s testimony in 90 minutes in heaven.  His desire to be dead far outweighed seeing his wife and kids here on earth.  The bottom line is simple:  God has prepared a place for us.  And we have no comprehension of how great it will be.

Dwelling in the future will be incredible.  Dwelling in the house of the Lord starts today.  Our energy, our commitment, our pursuit of being with Him will change our today drastically.  It will define our day in a way that truly matters.

Psalm 23 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. 

As we walk into the business of the day, we must not let go of our invitation to Dwell in the presence of the Almighty God.  He is the only thing that makes the day worth living, the only real meaning, and the only one who will give us hope.  In Him, we have meaning and purpose and fulfillment.  Without Him, we have nothing.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J