Colossians 3:23
[23]And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

I will be 100% honest. This post is coming off of my Brother-in-laws sermon last week that I happened to catch on his youtube.

https://youtube.com/@pastor-mowers?feature=shared

First, let me start with. I know we didn’t post last night. We will get that fixed up and sent out this week. As I was writing yesterday, a mouse decided to crawl behind our shower and gnaw the pvc pipe till hot water was blowing everywhere behind the walls. It took us quite a few hours to get everything to a point where we could go to sleep and I spent much of today doing repairs.

So, this was our last two days, and honestly, this seems to be our last year. Every time we think we are going down the road, a bump hits. The question has become: Are we being attacked by the Devil, or are we ahead of God, and he’s trying to slow us down?

This was not a question for me until I listened to Steve’s last message, and he mentioned that sometimes we get ahead of God and just assume because it’s something we think God wants that we should do it. He also spoke about how being in the scripture and asking God to guide you through His word would be beneficial.

I took this to heart more than most messages I hear, especially from someone like Steve, who its hard to take seriously from the pulpit not for any reason than he’s my age and I have known him for years. He’s a great preacher, and that’s not what I mean by not being able to take him serious I mean, more like if you have known me for years, I would be hard to take seriously to. It’s hard to take someone you know has your wife saved as Evil Monkey in his phone contacts.

Back to my point, though. I had never thought of these past few months as God telling me to slow down and pray. I was not following the verse and doing it wholeheartedly towards God but towards my own thoughts of what God wants. I reasoned out it has a lot to do with my not reading enough of His word. It’s not that I don’t read it’s more that I’ve felt convicted lately to read more and study harder for my Sunday morning lessons with the kids. Maybe that’s what God has been trying to get to me?

I’m not sure what is really going on, but I know that I am going to stop and let it be less about my thoughts. Today was a great reminder that I do not know everything. I watched some videos and said okay I’ll fix this pipe the cheapest way possible, and I failed over and over again today. It wasn’t until I swallowed my pride and finally started praying like I should have and stopped and read a few verses on my phone Bible that I felt the hey stupid you know a plumber that you can get ahold of. So, the message was sent out, and minutes later, the answer to my problem was in front of me, and  I spent minutes fixing the problem that I had spent all day making worse in my pride.

If nothing else, my brother in law Steve has reinforced my own conviction and I am going to make it a bigger deal that I get a significant time to read my Bible each morning versus the few minutes a day I had been giving it.