Welcome to Week xxx of Think on These Things!
What follows is a series of daily meditations and exercises to help us develop our individual prayer lives. This represents a one-day-at-a-time process. Don't short-circuit the process by reading ahead. Simply read and do each day what is offered for that day.
What follows is a series of daily meditations and exercises to help us develop our individual prayer lives. This represents a one-day-at-a-time process. Don't short-circuit the process by reading ahead. Simply read and do each day what is offered for that day.
January 1
Our excellent goal for this year is to grow closer to God. In order to achieve that goal, we want to be deliberate in thinking about Him, focusing on Him, and spending time with Him. As a starting place, spend a few minutes right now talking to Him about the answers to each of these questions.
The questions are phrased in such a way as to help you talk with Him about them. They are not just questions for you to think about in your head. They are questions for conversation -- conversation with God.
Lord, do You want me to be closer to You than I am right now?
Do I want what You want?
What keeps me from wanting to be closer to You than I am?
What keeps me from being closer to You than I am?
What can I do to grow closer to You in 2020?
The questions are phrased in such a way as to help you talk with Him about them. They are not just questions for you to think about in your head. They are questions for conversation -- conversation with God.
Lord, do You want me to be closer to You than I am right now?
Do I want what You want?
What keeps me from wanting to be closer to You than I am?
What keeps me from being closer to You than I am?
What can I do to grow closer to You in 2020?
January 2
When i
this year.
this year.
January 3
Most folks,
to get there.
to get there.
January 4
Some t
destinations?
destinations?
January 5
While
something less?
something less?
January 6
Consider
to You?
to You?
January 7
As we come to the conclusion of Week 1, think and pray about this advice from the 16th-century Protestant Reformer, John Calvin:
“The
for your groggy soul.”
“The
for your groggy soul.”