Spirituality Guide

There comes a time in every Christian’s walk when they have to say…STOP!

I got that feeling the other night when I heard first of Juanita Bynum’s situation, then, of Paula and Randy White’s divorce.
It would seem that the gates of hell have been let loose on their lives. But, no. That’s not, I think, the case.

What’s really going on is that we ALL have just lost sight of God in our daily doings. We have taken Him out of everything and expect everything to continue to run smooth.

Who’s fooling who?

This is the the day that we drudge through - Wednesday!

The day where we can barely stay awake, getting through it the best we can, trying our best to keep phone calls to a minimum, paperwork to a minimum and coffee breaks to a maximum. The day where if we can just get through it, things will be alright.

Wednesday…

If we look at our lives as just something tgo “get through”, we will waste valuable amounts of time, just waiting for time to pass. Time is a precious commodity, one that once it leaves its hard to retrieve.

So, make it a fabulous Wednesday, not a grudge day!

Remember yesterday when we talked about life in the fab lane? Let’s review.

This morning my “fab lane” was quite hectic. Spending time in God’s presence should be key in the life of every believer. However, the realistic thought is that sometimes, life happens and that quiet time or peaceful time just doesn’t manifest. What should one do?

Press on and keep doing what it takes to get in the presence of God. That’s life in the fab lane, isn’t it?

I’ve been watching Kimora Lee Simmons’ reality TV show, “Life in the Fab Lane”, and I’ve been able to glean a lot from it. See if you can follow me there;

Kimora lives a fabulous life, filled with wonderful riches, glamour and success. She has gopher and fetchers at her beck-and-call. There is very little that she is allowed to do for herself. She doesn’t do anything that requires too much physical or even mental work.

I remember in one of the first episodes, she had her assistant to order her a new salad. The salad that she had was full of chopped chicken and other things that she obviously didn’t like. She instructed the assistant to order a new salad and have them remove the chopped chicken to one container and the vegetables and lettuce to another container. Huh??

Well, the assistant scurried away to make his master satisfied and proud. They never showed her again, enjoying the salad, but I’m willing to bet that she got her salad, just the way she ordered it.

This episode got me wondering about my life in the fab lane. First I wondered what fab lane is that? My fab lane as a Christian consists of trials, tribulations, discomforts and situations. But it also consists of overwhelming peace, joy, happiness and total satisfaction. How can I have all of these things? Easy. Although we go through this life with more questions than answers, our faith is what sustains us. It’s what builds us up and gives us character. Our faith is strengthened by our relationship with God.

Life in the fab lane…

Yes, I’ll take it anyway of the week.

Have you seen it? Anywhere? Does anyone truly have peace in their lives?

Sometimes, no a lot of times, we fill our lives up to the max with things that stress us out, fill us up and leaves us empty. What are all these things that stretch us but don’t give us peace? Are they worth it?

It’s no wonder that Christ admonishes us in scripture to be content with the things such as we have. They are enough for us to have; things that is.

If we are to have total peace, what do you think peace is?

The best that God has to offer us is what?

What is HIS best to us as His children? If He never gave us anything else, if He never blessed us with anything more, if we live each day and never get another thing from Him, what is His best to us?

His best to us as His children is the unconditional love to us. Remember as a child, your parents would spank you and then say to you that they did this because they LOVED you? Strange isn’t it?

Let’s think about His best. What do you think?

The other day my daughter came to me, very shyly and quietly and asked me, “Mom, can you keep a secret?� I immediately wondered, what could be so secretive about the life of a 10 year old kid? What could be so “hush-hush� that we would have to lock ourselves off from the rest of the family to ‘discuss’ something. Well, the first thing I thought was that there was this deep, dark secret about the little boys in her class and how they could be getting fresh and out of line. My tigress antennas were up and I was ready to pounce on whatever the secret was that came out of her mouth. What was it?

My little girl has been a sweet little girl, ever since the day she was born. Perfect, no, but she has always done whatever she can to please her parents and to make God smile on her. She takes great pleasure in doing good deeds and will get visibly upset if she makes us unhappy with her actions. So, as you can imagine, I was wondering, “what?�.

Well, although I cannot tell you what her secret was, suffice it to say that she was worried about if something she had done had displeased God. She was concerned to know if God still loved her and would let her come into heaven one day.

How worried or concerned are we if God sees and knows what we’ve done? How concerned are we about our actions and the consequences of those actions on the ones we know and love and even on the ones who don’t know us. How bad does it hurt us if we disappoint God?

Let’s live our lives as if God is looking right at us. Because He is. Let’s be ready to please God no matter what. Let’s be sensitive to the mind and heart of God in all things. So sensitive that we stay on alert, careful of actions, our thoughts, our words.

There is a saying that if you just let God do it, He will do it. This means that sometimes we have to stop doing it ourselves and let Him handle it. This includes taking care of our own problems, situations, distractions and interruptions, He is more than capable of doing above and beyond what we expect and what we think. He can do all things, if we just give Him a chance and the opportunity to be in our lives.

All that we have to do, all that is required from us is just to stop…and let Him do it.