INSPIRASUNS

I think I’ve mentioned here before that a friend of mine sends me an inspirational text each morning. He has been conducting a comprehensive study of the Anglican Catechism over the past few months. He’s broken it down piece by piece, in just short snippets. It really is perfect.

Yesterday’s snippet was about prayer. I find the timing very interesting, given that I’ve been asking for healing prayer from you all for the past few days (which I will continue to accept). Neck and shoulder are better, still twinges though. Ok, sorry, back to my point. Yesterday’s snippet started with this: “Why should you pray? I should pray because God calls me to do so, because I was made for fellowship with Him, because I need the help of His Holy Spirit, and because He has promised to answer the prayers of His people”.

When I read that this morning (I always read the previous day’s lesson), the timing was not lost on me at all. I also was struck by the first sentence. “I was made for fellowship with Him”. He made us to be in fellowship, at one with Him. Father made us to be united with Him.

I think of how He walked and talked with Adam and Eve in the garden every single day. He just talked with them and grew in a relationship with them. The three were united. Until that is…satan decided that Adam and Eve were not good enough to be one with God. We know the rest of the story.

Father created us, His children, to be with Him every single day. Then, He did the most selfless thing: He gave us free will, the choice to do that. He doesn’t require it, He doesn’t demand it, He simply asks, “Will you be with me?”.

How in the world can we say no to that? How can we not want a relationship with our creator, the being that gave us life? How can we resist the opportunity to be one with our Lord, growing in a love so true and so deep that we cannot even imagine it?

Well, friends, this morning I choose that relationship. I ask Father to help me be more one with Him and His Son, our Lord.  Come into my heart, Father, and help me to be one with You. Thank you for the gift of your Son, and thank you for always being there, and forgive me for those times when I have walked away from You. Today, Lord, I recommit myself to you. I choose You.

Have a wonderful day, friends. Today, I hope you choose our Lord. Continued prayers for the return of sweet Emily Rea.

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.