My Mind

I can remember the words to the song, "I work up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus...." When last have you woke up with your mind on Jesus? So many of us wake up with our minds on what we are going to wear to work that day or how many chores we have to execute before 3 p.m. Jesus has not been the first thing on many of our minds for a very long period of time. Our minds have been on our struggles, the emotional pain, the financial challenges, our children, our wayward spouses who are depriving us of marital bliss, family life and spiritual support. Indeed it is a great challenge to wake up each morning with our minds stayed on Jesus. Such challenge is not because of our lack of love for God but because of the preoccupation of the cares of this life. In Matthew 13, The Parable Of The Sower Jesus said that some seed fell among thorns choked the word. He then explained that the thorns represents the cares of this life and the seed is the word of God. What is on your mind, occupying too much space and time? I encourage you to ignore the issues in your life that you most certainly cannot fix. Discipline yourselves to start each day with Jesus on your minds and allow the Holy Spirit to speak a rhema word into your soul at the beginning of each day. Let us indeed wake up every morning with our minds stayed on Jesus. There is no better way to begin your day!