So as you can see from my lack of posts that Summer vacation has started! The month started out with a bang and is almost gone in a blink...a few days off school, kids off to cousin camp, a new Bible study, hosted a rummage sale, new sports for the kids, and just like that I'm behind on my reading. As it was pouring buckets of rain yesterday and we sat in the house without power...I was removed from the busy...cut-off from the racetrack of my day to day pace I was keeping...and reminded that ironically, despite the massive amount of rain falling outside my window, I was suffering from a drought. I haven't visited the well to taste the living water in over a week. And if you looked at my days, you could probably see it right away...that change that happens when you step away for too long, and forget who you are and all the blessings around you, and the whispering of His Spirit.
So I dug in deep this morning, and it's no surprise that in Romans 6:17 I found conviction (that Holy elbow in the gut saying - "Hey, where have you been?"). "But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted." Did that word stick out to you too? Wholeheartedly. To give myself fully (heart, soul and mind)...but I haven't been doing that - not even close.
Now today I'm feeling the cracks of dry skin starting to soften, and the living well rising up. I look at what surrounds verse 17. The words that talk about our choices and who we serve...of the consequences and the benefits from how we live our lives. I am thankful for this reminder of my purpose.
