I'm enjoying this 30 Day Challenge. I'm glad I made it easy this time although if you asked me when I started, I would not have expected it to be this easy. I am in Day #8 and still staring my mornings earlier, almost always beating my goal of 30 minutes. And I'm none the worse for the wear. In fact, I have more energy and I"m more productive. Yipee! Nothing much to blog about and I have stuff to do but I wanted to remain accountable at logging progress because that will help keep me going.
As we studied the "whatsoever things" of Philippians 4, we covered things that we choose to think on. As we make volitional choices in our lives, there are often "better things" that we find in God's Word. Here are some of them. Our Better Choices Luke 10:41-42 New International Version (NIV) 41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but few things are needed—or indeed only one.[ a ]Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” Our Priorities 1 Samuel 15:22King James Version (KJV) 22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. Our responses Psalm 84:10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the ho...