What is it in your life that is "vital" to your day? What is absolutely necessary to the maintenance of your life? What can you not live without? What do you gravitate to everyday? What do you need? What do you consider an essential?
I feel as though my title should actually be called "brutal" as being this transparent borders on brutal, however the title "vital" holds a larger lesson. For the last 6 days now I have been without my "purple book"! Did you gasp? I am gasping for all of you! Not only do I want to read my devotions -- I am leading the band and encouraging you all to do the same, and I need it to do that! And I don't have my purple book and have absolutely no idea where it could be!
The first couple of days I looked casually recalling what my grandmother always said, "don't waste your time and energy searching all day for it, because it will eventually find you." Well it did not and still has not, and the next two days I searched high and low and worry set in as it was still nowhere to be found. I have to admit that I temporarily lost some joy and it took me longer than it should have to ask my Father to assist me in looking. I battled in my mind, how will I write an encouraging email when I haven't even read my purple book devotions for 4 days!! I really thought I would run upon it in the last two days, but it is hiding really good this time! You see, I have grown to LOVE that purple book -- I look forward to reading a devotion everyday and I have highlighted it and journaled through it -- I have recapped great lessons and documented intimate moments with my Heavenly Father because of it! It has taken me to God's Word on so many applicable levels! It became a "vital" part of my day! And I want it!!!
So yesterday, as I realized the next day was blog day, I sat down and had a heart to Heart! It was then that God impressed upon me to keep focused on what really matters! What was really "vital" to my life, and though the purple book is a means to that end -- it is the living out of His Book that is "vital"! The purple book was just helping me to get there!
So this morning I opened my Bible randomly to, of all chapters, Luke 15. And as I read, my face began to smile as I realized I was reading the chapter in the Bible about all the things that were "lost and found"! God is so good! And it hit me that there are things that are lost that are more precious and eternal to life than my purple book, and will have a much grander purpose in being found than my purple book! When I find my purple book, I will be elated, but in keeping an eternal perspective, I am reminded after reading this that the finding of a lost soul is incomparable! I am reminded that it is actually more "vital" that I be searching for lost souls than searching for my purple book!
So what lesson is God teaching you about what is "vital" in your life -- His Word is a seminary and He Himself the Professor of all professors!
Enrolled as a student of His Word!
Debbie Harris
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