The main thing <3
We had a full weekend…and a full week ahead…and my head is full of spinning thoughts and it’s only 7:39 on Monday morning.
So I have been sitting at our table, pulling all my distracted tendencies into some sort of attempt to have “quiet” time…
while an army of “ought-to’s, need-to’s, want-to’s” fight for my attention…
and another army of “won’t-happen’s, can’t-do-it’s, you-don’t-have-what-it-take’s” line up ready to oppose every good thing.
All of it, this confrontation. is taking place in my head while I sip coffee and try to read from the 1 Corinthians chapter for the day…
or actually yesterday because well…
already a day behind on that, too.
And then I read this line…
1 Corinthians 15:3-5 where Paul urges the recipients of his letter…
then, now, in all the ages til Christ returns…
Here is the #1 main thing for you to focus on:
Christ died for our sins
Christ was buried
Christ was raised on the third day and He was seen by people.
Real people who lived in that time and who testified that He who had died is alive.
And I write down all the scattered thoughts and what-if’s that have been spinning around in my head so far this morning and I look up from my Bible and my journal…
and out there in the yard is this pinwheel Russ got yesterday.
It spins in response to the wind.
Sometimes fast.
Sometimes slow.
Sometimes not at all.
But the center always remains.
Solid and firm and steadfast.
So I know and believe.
The central focus of today is not the million and one things that I think need to be done.
The central focus of today is not me…or others…or tasks…or anything else.
The central, key part of my existence today is this…
Christ died for my sins.
He was buried.
He rose again.
He lives and I know He lives in me.
That is my center and out from that …
all the winds that blow today will be anchored in that truth.
Whatever this day brings for you and for me, we are held fast and secure in this:
Christ died for our sins…
He was buried…
He rose again…
He lives…
and we are His witnesses..
you and I…
as we ….
journey onward <3