Be at one with Christ, and His love and adoration for you will be experienced
Monastics
As written in today’s text, we know monasteries and convents are where men and women go to live the quiet life of prayer, simplicity, and work in a community of the like-minded. As Kundtz adds, “But many men and women who live in the larger world, with relationships, families, careers, and friends, are successful in bringing parts of the monastic life into their secular routines.” Regardless of the busyness or makeup of our lives, we are asked to consider expressing the monastic in ourselves.
Just yesterday I was talking with colleagues at work, and I said, without neglecting my kids, I wish there was a way for me to get away and do nothing—just be. Not worrying about responsibilities or how something is going to get done, or where something is going to come from. I just want to be still, meditate, and rest. Those are things that God asks of us, and I want to be able to truly do so without interruptions from this world. As recommended by my colleague, and as a practice my life coach encouraged me to do years ago, it’s time to schedule a day every so often to just be for me. Psalm 1:2 says, “but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night.” I enjoy the time I carve out each morning with God, and I would like to be more intentional about giving Him even days.
FMBC Weekly Reading: Psalms 8:1-9
The majesty and sovereignty of God is everywhere
“O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor. You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!”
Our God thinks highly of us; we are precious and so worthy in His site. Let us remember and not settle for what’s less than we deserve.
Esther 4:14
“For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father's family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this.”
As with Esther, this is a time that you and I must act boldly, knowing God has placed us where we are at this appointed time, for a specific purpose. Let us not deny or ignore the opportunity. Live (boldly) in the moment and where God leads your heart, mind, and soul.
Be at one with Christ, and His love and adoration for you will be experienced, my friend.🙏🏽💚🦋🌈
