A life FREE of clutter

Your heart will be where your treasure is~Matthew 6:21

The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is, and the life that stays FREE of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness. Being busy is not a sin! Jesus was busy. Paul was busy. Peter was busy. Nothing of significance is achieved without effort and hard work and weariness. Being busy, in and of itself, is not a sin. But bieng busy in an endless pursuit of things that leave us empty and hollow and broken inside--that cannot be pleasing to God.

One source of man's weariness is the pursuit of things that can never satisfy; but which one of us has not been caught up in that pursuit at some time in our life? Our passions, possessions and pride--these are all dead things. When we try to get life out of dead things, the result is only weariness and dissatisfaction.

by Max Lucado's Grace for the moment devotion

My prayer today is that I don't clutter my schedule and my being in pursuit for the things of this world, but only for the things of God!

Be Blessed and be a blessing!

SET APART

The Spirit produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:22-23
I read this verse in my quiet time this morning and as I thought about it and asked myself...do I have these qualities? My answer is 'sometimes.' You see it is very easy to find yourself in the whirlwind of this fallen world when we are not constantly renewing our minds with God's Holy Word. God reminded me that as a Christian, the Holy Spirit produces these fruits in me and in turn I will be set apart from this fallen world we live in. Then they might see that in me and praise our Father in heaven and be drawn to Him! WOW... it is not so much what we know, but what we do with what we know. My actions should be of that which the Spirit produces in me. If I lack one, I lack all! I want to be considered and viewed by others as a quiet and holy people. Holy...set apart. Pure. Decent. Honest. Wholesome.. How about you? Does this verse speak truth in your life.