What I mean is my blood is tingling with a desire to know God’s Word.  This feeling must be similar to the emotion David felt when he wrote…

Ps 119:162 I rejoice at Your word, As one who finds great spoil. NASU

Or Jeremiah when he wrote…

Jer 15:16 Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts. NASU

There is that anticipation that the Word will answer the questions we face in our lives.

Maybe this has come about by reading Allen Hadidian’s book A Single Thought and having to come up with some study questions as I lead some of my kids through this important material on the single life.  God’s Word provides so much meaning and direction.  My son is doing the same and our goal is to create a Study Guide for the book to interact online with people who read it.

Maybe my emotions have been stirred by what I had done a long time ago.  For about 6 weeks, I was reading over and over the first seven chapters of Isaiah.  I was thinking the message through.  I had a complete detailed outline of those marvelous introductory chapters of that wonderful book.  What a convicting and yet inspirational message Isaiah had to deliver.  I must say, it was impressive.

Now, I do not know if anything like this has ever happened to you, but somehow I DELETED THAT OUTLINE BY MISTAKE.  Curses.  When that happened, I felt sick.  I was stunned; I felt like I just formatted my hard drive and forgot to back up my data.

I would be lying if I told you I was not mad.  I was so upset I did not want to so much as look at those chapters again because I was wondering why God would let such a thing happen.  That was the product of some righteous effort.  Why didn’t He prevent it and preserve it?

I know God just laughs at me over this.  I see now what the loss of all that work has done.  I had seen something wonder and spectacular in Isaiah’s vision.  I had gone to the Grand Canyon, taken pictures, and then somehow lost all those pictures so to say.  I want to go back.  I want to see it again.  I want to take some pictures and be a little more careful keeping them safe.

A good and devout man arranges in his mind the things he has to do, not according to the whims of evil inclination but according to the dictates of right reason. Who is forced to struggle more than he who tries to master himself? This ought to be our purpose, then: to conquer self, to become stronger each day, to advance in virtue.  ~ Thomas a Kempis: The Imitation of Christ

The mind is such an important matter.  Think of it in this way.  A basketball player must take his body to the court to practice each day.  He runs, jumps, and shoots over and over to train his muscles to perform at their highest.  The success of the basketball traveling through the air toward the hoop is the product of all that conditioning.

Now think a thought.  Who are you?  Why are you hear?  What is the purpose of life?  Your answer to those questions, the product of your thinking, is it the result of any prior conditioning?  Can you train your mind to perform optimally?  Can you equip it so it can do the job of thinking efficiently, effectively?

You may know how to condition yourself to shoot a basketball, but do you know how to condition yourself to think a thought?

Think about it.

Hos 10:12
12 Sow with a view to righteousness,
Reap in accordance with kindness;
Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the Lord
Until He comes to rain righteousness on you. NASU

One good thing about redoing a web site is it allows you to go back to the drawing board and think through again your goals and objectives. 

Upgrades are great!