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But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.  (Ph 3:13-14) Father, Please do not let me by so distracted by earthly pleasures that I fail to pursue you.  And please do not let me use your grace as an excuse to cease pursuing you.  I want you.  And I want you even if that means difficulty.  Claude would not study. He would watch TV. He would stay up late at night and drink. He…

Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.  (Mt 7:24) Father, I ask that your Spirit would take your words and press them into my heart so that I live faith and do your will.  I ask that I would live out your heart in my life. When I taught, I had to attend a certain number of professional development classes each year. I remember one such class in which a man with a Phd and a nice theory about education was instructing us…

To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you. (Ph 3:1) Lord, remind me of the simple truths of the Cross and Atonement, of the Resurrection and my redemption, of your Spirit in my soul, that I may never forget your glorious love, your justice and mercy, and the power of your might. Repeat these things in my soul that I may grow in your sovereign grace day by day. When we walk with Christ, our knowledge of God grows. This growth is a process so that God gives us more advanced…

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God.  You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.  But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.  Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity …  (Hebrews 5:11-6:1) Lord, grow me in Your grace, that I may know…

I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.  (Ps 131:2) Lord, still my soul, and let me focus on Christ.  Mazda’s slogan captures well 21st century western culture: zoom, zoom.   Mazda uses the slogan to market its cars, but the marketing works because it strikes at a value within western culture. We are a high tech, fast paced, information-bombarded people. We are here and there and hardly have time to breathe before we are back here again. We are a sensual people, perhaps more so…