Today as I opened God's word, I sensed such an urgency to engage in the work that Christ left His church on earth to do. Sometimes it is very easy to engage in the management of the church and we forget to be the church.

I believe that God is calling us out (as He always has) to be be a representation of Him in our communities. We are to engage our neighborhoods and neighbors and live among them as righteous people, led by the spirit of God and shaped by the word of God.

I am more convinced today that if you practice the habit of reading the word of God everyday and shut out some of the "noise" of this world, you will be a changed person. We cannot take in the word of God and not change.

Today I read in I John 4 the following: "God is love and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgement, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world."

Prayer: Today Lord, and tomorrow, let me live like you lived on this earth. Let me not live with regret over yesterday but with faith about tomorrow, that Your love will live in me and through me. Amen