A day in my life

I want so badly for others to have what I have, and I can honestly say that only happens in a few areas of my life. My drag racing has taught me a lot of tricks of the trade while I am not the best, I do not win all the time I am riding a pretty hot streak right now, but I don't share those tricks. I am doing things with my daughters to get them prepared to play sports and while I do share the secrets of the trade I only share it with a select few because I honestly want my daughters to have an advantage and be successful. But, my greatest attribute, my greatest possession is my personal relationship with Jesus Christ. And that my friends is what I want for everyone. I do not post on Facebook every hour, or every time I think to about it because that isn't how you sell it. You live it, you pray for it, and you cultivate it and others will want it for themselves. The old saying You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink is very true. You can drag everyone you want to church, you can share the Gospel with them all but you cannot force them to want it or accept it. But you can make them thirsty and that is our job. I start out the mornings with prayer and reading a devotional for Pastors that is emailed to me each morning. After that I get up, wake all the girls up and hop in the shower. I don't turn the radio on during my trip to the office, some days I just pray through that time, some days I just listen for God but I give that time to Him as well. ONce I arrive at my office I start blogging, working on my sermons for the following weeks and to be totally honest with you some days I just read the passages in different translations and that is all the sermon prep I do. It's all up to my mood and God's timing to reveal to me what I need to say. After about 45 minutes of sermon prepping I go pick Alexa up and take her to school, this is an important part of my devotional life because my most important ministry is my family. If I am not ministering to them and meeting their needs physically, mentally, emotionally and most importantly spiritually I am a failure as a pastor. After dropping her off I read my devotional book that my dad got me a while back. It's called the focused life and it is a daily reading that includes the chapter of PRoverbs for that date, and a few chapters of Psalms. All of this working together prepares me to face my day. Some days are busy and hectic others are not so much busy as hectic but either way, I am prepared to face the day and all that it throws my way based on my morning preparation. I long to see others grow in their walk, and I hope that in some way I can present it in a way that it makes others thirsty. In Africa there was a village that was not allowed to pray or worship God publically. So they met privately in homes and secretly in different places to avoid being persecuted and possibly killed. Well, in order to do their private prayers and quiet times alone with God each day they would have to leave their huts and walk off into the woods. As time went on they would walk the same path each day out into the woods for prayer and it wore a path leading from their houses to their spots for prayer. It was very common for someone to backslide and not continue their daily ritual and a neighbor would simply ask how they were doing and point out that the grass was beginnig to grow again, or that their path was not looking so worn as a way to remind them they need that personal time with God each and every day. So, I ask you now, what does YOUR path look like? Is it worn out and well trodden? Or is it overgrown and hard to even see? Thanks for reading and have a great Hump Day!