Attitudinal Living!

This past Sunday in our Sunday School lesson we were studying the 51st Psalm. Verse 10 opens with the words: “Create in me a pure heart, O God…” The challenge of the word “Create” has been on my mind since then. How does God still create in my heart? What would I need to have Him create that will enable me to continue on this wonderful journey?
Then I began to wonder, what do I put in the way of God’s creative process? What obstacles cloud my path that are not as easily seen as a mountain, but still cause me to fall?

I am reminded of Victor Frankl, who spent a long time in a concentration camp during the war. He describes what it was that made life tolerable for some while others simply gave up and died. "What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life," he said. "We had to learn that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life ... daily and hourly."

We need to live in much the same way. Some people expect something from this world as if they were owed it by the fact they were born. Those people seem to draw all the strength out of emotions and desires and are discouraged continually because things do not "go their way."

To the Christian, we find that we are the ones who are empowered to challenge life to the fullest. We bring all our strengths and desires into the fact that we are loved and called by the Son of God to care and give hope to everyone. It is a challenge to find what God expects us to do!

Mid-week Prayer

Loving God, with this prayer I begin a new blessing from You. Open my eyes to those around me and let me give joy and happiness through a simple smile and an uplifting word. What a glorious blessing to walk through life following You. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.

This has been Rev. Jim Massey. I pray that God continues to “create in you” the love and strength that is needed for every day of serving Him. See you next week in another Mid-week Epistle.