Today...Praise Him in the Sanctuary

Today is a day of praise!!!

Praise Him in the Sanctuary, praise Him in the street....

Where is your sanctuary? Church? Bible Study Class? What have you turned into your Sanctuary?
Could I ask you to please step outside any box you may have created for the Almighty and recreate more "space" for Him?

For all of us, the world crowds in...and it's all great stuff; the stuff of living. The kids need help, then lunch, then dinner, then special projects for school. The family has birthdays, holidays, and celebrations of all kinds. These are all great things to be involved in, and keeping family and friends close, showing them just how much you care is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

However, I am reaching for Superlative living. The kind of iiving that you dream about, and wonder how to get there. The kind of living that keeps you in that amazing "Holy Spirit Bubble Wrap". Is that truly attainable??

Don't just dare to dream it...do it! This is not something you can do on your own. It is something you have to be invited to do. All you have to do is answer "yes". Doesn't that sound just soooo simple and easy? How can one question be so easy to answer, and yet so hard to follow through??

The God of the Universe and His Son have asked yo to answer "yes" to allowing them to live in your heart. We all want to answer yes, we all want to follow through, so how come we aren't all living that superlative life?

As with all things - it comes with a price. It's up to you of how high a price that is. What's more important to you? Pride in your personal acheivements, or giving glory to God? Getting that extra batch of cookies made, the house sanitized, or spending that extra few minutes with God?

These don't seem to be such hard choices when we seem them typed or on paper...but when confronted with choices in life, it seems to boggle us. The things that make the most noise seem to get more of our attention.

And yet, the one thing that will give us the most peace, joy, power, and love stands waiting quietly to bless us. Spend time with Him, revel in Him. Spend time with Him in "Sanctuary". this is where we find peace, joy, and the strength that enables us to live that superlative life! That "God kind of life", or Zoe, as it is in the Greek. this is the life that we all yearn for, in whatever form, there is a deep yearning within each of us to serve, love, and live with a life that can only be described as a "God kind of life" And we only attain such living through the constant contact and building of a relationship with our Almighty God.



Try it! We need to do so little to receive so much!!! Have you had that experience of putting God first in your morning, spending time with Him, and suddenly, you accomplished far more than you ever imagined that day?? And how peaceful were you? Did you have a hard time making decisions?



Yes, there may be battles, even knock down drag out fights....but keep in mind - "the battle belongs to the Lord" and wow does He have firepower!!! He is in it to win it....for us!!!

Now THAT is superlative living!!!

So, where is your sanctuary? Go there often, and just love on God, that's all we have to do!!! He has taken away the stress, anxiety, and worry of how "to get ahead" Just love Him, and spend time with Him.....boy will He love you back; and does HE ever know how to love!!!

later: "How are you keeping your sanctuary? Are you trashing God's Temple?"