Monday ~ April 30, 2012

Monday ~ April 30, 2012

BOREDOM

Boredom has it ever set into your life? Have you ever thought, wow I'm bored? Have you been in the situation of waiting for something and got bored of waiting for it? Boredom, why do I have to be so bored? Do your children always say, "I'm bored, I have nothing to do!" even when their rooms are filled with toys and such?

I recently starting reading a book called, "Because We Love Him ~ Embracing a Life of Holiness" by Clyde Cranford, it was recommended by my Mentor to read. So I start in on it, usually I skim through the FORWARD, PREFACE, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, and INTRODUCTION of a book, but since my Mentor said to read it I thought you know what I'm going to read ever single word, even the copyright page.

I was reminded a couple weeks ago about when I start my devotions and reading of different books that I should ask the Holy Spirit to show me something in there that could better my walk with God. So with out hesitation I did that when I picked up this book, little did I know that starting with the FORWARD I would start getting those "Golden Nuggets" out of it. By the time I got to the INTRODUCTION I was completely shocked by what I was reading. But here in the INTRODUCTION something, actually a word like popped right out of that page. And how it hit me had nothing to do what he was talking about, so I stayed there reading over and over and over again that single word, "BOREDOM". Finally it made sense, I looked at the word and it started to break apart right in front of me, boREDOm. (Boredom is an emotional state experienced during periods lacking activity or when individuals are uninterested in their surroundings.) Right there in the middle of this word is the word REDO, which means the total opposite of boredom. Redo means to remake or do over, to revise or reconstruct, to redecorate or remodel, renovate. WOW!!! That's it! I started looking back at what has been going on in my life, and realized I was in that state of Boredom until God woke me up on December 5, 2011. That's when he said it is time to REDO or renovate my life. 


SO.......


Are you in that stage of boredom? Have you fallen into the trap of being bored? Are you uninterested in your surroundings?


Then it's time to REDO!!! 


Challenge Questions:


What is it that God wants me to do with my life?
Am I what God wants of me?
What does the Bible say to me?
Do I read the Bible like I should?
Do I pray like I should?
Am I saved?


It doesn't matter what you have or are going through God is ready for you to decide to REDO!!


Ephesians 4:17-25

17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.20 But ye have not so learned Christ;21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. 25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.