Dear Ones,
Hope you are keeping warm. I got to Aldi’s yesterday so am going to be busy in the kitchen this morning cooking up some meals. We have Bible Study this afternoon and we missed the last two weeks so will be great to be back.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
Are we following what God has for our lives or are we settling for less? It’s sad when we only go part way into something the Lord has for us, and we fail to keep going to enter into the fulness of His plan. Maybe we settle for being mediocre and we miss the joy that could be ours if we persevered. We can do this in many ways like being a good employee rather than being an excellent one or being an elder when God called you to be a pastor, or obeying God in only certain parts of our lives. We have no idea what we miss out on when we settle for less.

I was reading a book by Joyce Meyers, and she writes about how Terah was going with his son Abram and his daughter-in-law Sarah and his grandson lot to the land of Canaan. But it says in Gen. 11:31 that when they got to Haran, they settled there. I always wondered why they didn’t go all the way. Why did they settle and miss the blessings the Lord had. When Terah died Abram and family finally moved on to Canaan, the land flowing with milk and honey but why did they wait so long.

Joyce goes on to ask why we settle for mediocrity when we could experience the best of what God has for us now. I’m sure we are all guilty of that in different ways in our lives. Mediocrity is the easier way, but we miss out on fulfillment of knowing God’s best. Maybe we let God have control of various parts of our life but not all of it. We miss out! I remember when Al and I were entering our 20’s and I was in nurses training and Al was at Augsburg college. We were in love and wanted to get married and back then I would have gotten kicked out of nursing if I married. We mulled over if we should forget our education, get married then and go to the Mission field. We prayed and prayed over that but did not have peace and took the longer road of becoming a nurse and a pastor. We were willing to go to the mission field but didn’t have the call to go and we had peace and got back to the books and waited for 3 years to get married. But we learned so much in that time that helped us in marriage and the parish.
Let us all examine our present lives to see if we are settling instead of going all the way into what God has planned.
Challenge for today: Examine your life to see if you are settling in an area of your life and ask the Lord’s help to move on.
Blessings on your day and prayers and love, Judy