How to start your day

Posted by Timothy

December 16, 2008

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I find myself often rushing, eager to dive into email and reading blogs and just getting about my business.

But every day for the past couple of weeks, I start with just a plain notebook, silence, and then a moment of reading through the Bible. Right now, I focus on Psalms and Proverbs.

My take away for today on how to start the day:

My soul, wait silently for God alone. (Psa 62:5)

There are other areas where silence is essential and called for in the Bible. But to start the day allows us to trust the craziness and the business and the junk and put it into His hands. We cannot let God’s wisdom and power flow through us when we tend to what we want to do.

Challenge

Instead of diving into the stuff of the day, take silence in the beginning and ask God to help prioritize. This will seem counter-intuitive because, man, the clock is ticking, gotta go go go! And it will take time, our synapses haven’t been trained to wait for God first thing in the morning, but that is a wonderful way to start the day.