Less of My Fullness!

This Sunday morning posting is the first of many devotionals I will write, as the Lord gives grace, to prepare your heart to experience more of God’s fullness. You might be reading these spirit-awakening thoughts as you prepare to join other believers in your neighborhood church. Or if you are unable to mingle with others, may the Lord’s presence sweep into your heart wherever to find yourself, drawing you to hunger for more of Him. More of His fullness in your life.

Strange title for this first one, yes? Let me explain.

Recently moving into a home we purchased in Warsaw, Indiana, Carol and I have “struggled to survive” for a season with no internet. Imagine! Oh the depravation, the desolation. The cable guy was delayed by the pandemic panic. What we experienced was – cyber-silence. It was like going through withdrawal. “The internet has become the opiate of the people,” I mused. We could not occupy our time searching the web at will. We could not just click in and check out. We were left with – not “nothing,” but with our own thoughts -- undisturbed and unmanipulated.

I’m exaggeration to make a point.

It occurs to me that if I am awakened to desire more of God’ fullness in my life, I must make room for Him, as it were, in my heart. The goal of Christ-like character. We must make haste to deal with waste of time, of misdirected passion, of idolatrous infatuation with entertainment, of a drive to obsess over a world coming apart, of passive reception of what the world of politicians and entertainers prattle on and on about.

Paul said it shorter, and better, in Romans 12:1-2 NIV. 1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.