Chase the Setting Sun...

I woke up way late this morning. I either slept through my alarm or didn't set it right in the first place. I missed a youth fundraiser that I really should have been at. I immediately woke up feeling bummed out and guilty for missing the fundraiser breakfast. I had breakfast and watched some TV for a bit. The whole time I'm watching TV I, for some reason, kept talking myself into feeling worse.

I turned off the TV and decided to open up the Bible. Tonight Matt is preaching on 1 Corinthians 1:17-30 at Renovate, our contemporary worship service. I thought I'd get ahead and just read the beginning of 1 Corinthians. An hour later I had finished all 16 chapters of the book.

In Ephesians 6:17, Paul says that the sword of the Spirit is the Word of God. In those times when we're feeling attacked internally, when satan is telling us we aren't good enough, bringing on excessive guilt, making us second guess and doubt ourselves, God gives us His Word as a sword to fight back.

Earlier, I kind of just felt like staying home all day. My wife is flying back from Texas today, it's raining buckets outside, it's a great day to just stay inside. Instead, after spending some time in Scripture and prayer I actually can't wait to get to church and lead worship tonight. I am looking forward to what God plans to do through our little worship service tonight!

Scripture to me is alive, it meets each of us exactly where we are and corrects us, trains us and focusses us on what is truly important. Whether we're having the best day ever, the worst day, or something in between.