The easy path is the best way to become “MIA!”

Welcome men to day 16!  Please join your heart in prayer to connect to the One ‘of whom we must all give an account!’ (Romans 14:12) Lord, I need You!  Invade my spirit and saturate me with Yourself!  I need Your ‘living water’ to quench my thirst today!  Amen! 

Not sure if you’re still wearing your ‘man bracelet,’ but I’m sure that whatever you stamped on that metal washer, was anything but passive.  ‘All in!’ ‘Steadfast!’ ‘Valor!’ ‘Engage!’ ‘Courage!’ ‘Honor!’ ‘Initiator!’ etc.  

No-one used ‘complacent.’  No-one stamped ‘lazy.’  Why?  Because no one wants that!  But getting that character quality into our DNA is going to require something from us that we can’t get on our own.  

The distance from our head to our heart is like an insurmountable mountain.  I do the very things I don’t want to do.  And say the very things that I don’t want to say. But, as I’ve mentioned multiple times here, the heart is the man.  So getting our heart filled with the Holy Spirit– drinking from Him, the living water, daily–is the only way for our Spirits to be full and our connection with Him to be so strong we won’t fulfill the desires of our flesh.  If we don’t do this, we will be ‘missing in action!’  Not at our post of responsibility.  But how?  The only thing that works for me is getting Him inside of me!

“I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in unity!”  John 17:23.  “The mystery that is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27. “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me!”  Galatians 2:20

My prayer for today: Lord, in my flesh I fail.  In Your Spirit is resurrection power!  I rest in You alone!  Amen!