Some days the last thing I “feel” like doing is reading His word OR praying!! I just feel spiritually lethargic. It’s not that I want to go plunge into sin…it’s just that I don’t feel anything….just BLAH!!!
For me, one of the things that has helped me on those days is to write out the TRUTH of my current situation in my journal. I suppose you could call this, “Spiritual Affirmations”, I just don’t like the word affirmation personally. Here is an example of what I wrote out this morning, as I was having one of those days. Maybe this practice will help some of you. For me I can’t write it out once and then just read it each morning. It’s the actual practice of writing it out fresh that gives me strength. All of this comes directly from His Word….
“The truth of my life is this: The Spirit of Christ dwells within my body as I am writing this. My life is in Him. I am not of this world. I have died to the elementary principles of this world and its darkness. I have been raised up with Christ and seated with Him in the heavenly places. He has washed me in His blood. I am now Holy and Blameless before Him. I am His friend. I am His brother. I am His Son! I am a Son of God today. I am a member of Gods household.
I am not home yet, but I will be shortly. In a moment. Right now I dwell in a foreign land. I’m a stranger and an alien in this place. I do not belong here. I am here because there is a war that is being fought and I have been enlisted as a soldier. I do not entangle myself in the affairs of this world, so that I can please the One who has enlisted me, and so that I will be able to fight my battle well, and be victorious. I have nothing to fear, or worry, or be anxious about. Because all of my supplies and resources are being provided by my Commander-In -Chief. They come from my homeland, where the treasury is infinite and everlasting.
I have no fear. I have no worries. There is nothing that can be taken away from me during this life, because there is nothing that I possess. There is nothing in this world I hold onto. The things of this world are worthless and insignificant in comparison to what I already possess that can never be taken away. I am full and content in Him!
I am full of Joy and Peace today because all fear has been removed. My Dad loves me! He is intimately acquainted with all of my ways. His thoughts are precious towards me and they are more than the sand of the seashore. If He is for me, Who Can be against me?”
