My Amazing Morning Journey!

Those who know me know that I have always read the Bible from cover to cover each and every year. I have done so for many years. However, at the beginning of 2021 the Lord began to move me to make some changes – at least for that year, or so I thought. I knew I was to make a change, so OK I would only read three chapers instead of five. I would read a Psalm, a chapter in Proverbs, and a New Testament chapter. Well, that did not work, as I was seeing so much in each passage, I simply did not have sufficient time to finish it all. So I cut that down to a Psalm and the New Testament chapter. That was also too much, so I have spent that entire year reading, pondering, listening, and wrapping in the Psalms – twice. 

It is now late September 2023 and He h as continually, year by year and season by season, continued to adjust my reading for our time together each morning. At the present time, I read in the New Testament, sometimes a chapter, sometimes a section, and sometimes as this morning when I read most of Colossians in another translation. In the evening, before bed time, my portion is a Psalm. Our time together continues to be rich in content as well as appointment. He continually enlarges the Word in my heart to see and know things about Him, His Word, and myself, that I did not know before. 

What an absolutely tender and loving Lord He is! The changes that He is working in me are so intimate and loving. How deeply He knows our very fiber of being and how precious it is when He makes some change (we could call it transformation and we would be correct) deep within. 

Faith is built and life is realized and exploded. 

His Word is truly alive and vibrant – like living water flowing into my Spirit and through my soul and body. (Hebrews 4:12) 

The Word is so alive in me that I immediately am drawn into study and thought far beyond the passage – and it happens in every passage. So often I find I can only do a few verses at a time. 

I am delighted in this change in me that He has done and wouldn’t trade our time together each morning for anything. His movement pours over me like warm oil and my spirit, soul, and body find healing in Him. So the day is for the two of us to spend together – regardless of my calendars appointments. Oh I do try to make them, but a constant awareness of Him is with, in, and through me. 

What joy – unbounded joy! He truly is our Emmanuel (God with us). “Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus; Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.” Colossians 1:26-29.