There’s so few pages left for 2023, in my devotion book or on the calendar. So few and yet does that matter except that we remember time goes so much more quickly now. Ending 2023 means Christmas of course, and how did we ever put our most rushed season at the end of the year? Really Lord? Well maybe it’s because if we focused on Him it might go smoother, or at least we would find more peace over panic.

I appreciate most that God reminds me what I need the most: TIME WITH HIM. And today’s devotion from the Jesus Calling book is spot on to what God reminds: “Take time to be Holy”.

This is so important, not only do we get distracted by glitz, we get distracted by gloom. Our time with Him, in His Word, learning, and our time in His Work, loving, is the best time spent.  

I’ve been reading and writing not just to keep up with Him, but to allow Him to catch me up to Him, in awe and praise, and peace and purpose. 

Here’s to your end of the year wrap up, remember that the book and calendar starts over, no lost pages or moments with God in charge of time.

So good to focus on the Lord – and to remember He is above it all – and that thought that the whole rest of our eternity will be worry free and with Him  – so we should try that more and more now…  Here as in Heaven….

Amen.

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Jesus Calling by Sarah Young, Dec 13th –  “Take time to be holy. The word holy does not mean goody-goody; it means set apart for sacred use. That is what these quiet moments in My Presence are accomplishing within you. As you focus your mind and heart on Me, you are being transformed: re-created into the one I designed you to be. This process requires blocks of time set aside for communion with Me. … The benefits of this practice are limitless. Emotional and physical healing are enhanced by your soaking in the Light of My Presence. You experience a nearness to Me that strengthens your faith and fills you with Peace. You open yourself up to receive the many blessings that I have prepared for you. You become a cleaned temple of My Holy Spirit, who is able to do in and through you immeasurably more than you ask or imagine. These are just some of the benefits of being still in My Presence. 

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2 Thessalonians 1:10 ESV 

when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

Psalm 27:4 ESV

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own

Ephesians 3:20 ESV

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,