I love New Years. There’s something about leaving your past disappointments, failures and hurts behind you that makes New Years more special. Not only that, but you’re still recouping from the Thanksgiving and Christmas season.
As I was preparing New Years dinner, I watched Terri roll out her home-made biscuit dough on the kitchen table. (Terri makes the best biscuits…anything baked out of the oven, for that matter.) Then she got a short drinking glass and cut the biscuits out. Usually, our kitchen is the most equipped room in the house. (This is not an indictment on the rest of our house.) We have all matter of gadgets and cooking spices – everything of course except for a biscuit cutter.
Then I heard the Spirit say, “That’s the same thing we do with our gifts.” We sometime chose a tool, natural ability or a method of resolving a situation that gets the job done, but it’s not necessarily the most effective means. Oftentimes, we get stuck on automatic – dealing with issues the same way we’ve always dealt with them in the past. Those methods have lost some effectiveness.
So how do we get back our effectiveness? Delight yourself in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night (Ps 1:2, NLT). When you delight yourself in the law of the Lord you get fresh directions on how to handle every situation. Engulf yourself in His presence and they will be no ineffectiveness…you’ll always know which tool to use.
-Abrian Haynes
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