My Bathroom Scales

I realized the other day that I had started a new habit of getting on my bathroom scales every day. I would get on them and look at my weight and then determine what I needed to do that day so that I would keep my weight in check.

Last week I slowly got away from checking my weight and in doing that I slowly began to indulge in things that I shouldn't. So yesterday has I stepped onto my scales my chin dropped and I thought "How did this happen?" My scale was not at it's normal place. Not a place where I feel my best .

With my lack of keeping track of where I wanted to be I had taken my eyes off my mark.
When we do not have a mark or a goal or a scale that keeps our attention on our goal we so easily miss our mark.

The same is true in our walk with God. If I miss one, two or three days of not opening up his word and reminding myself of his love and his will for me; in just a short time I am standing in the mirror saying"How did this happen?"

Staying in God's word daily keeps my focus on him. It helps me to see daily where I am in need of discipline, or where I am indulging in things that are not good for me.
As I stay in God's word daily he displays his activity in me. And I am ready to do his work and focused on his will not mine.
It is God who puts forth power in me or displays his activity through me.
And I take great delight in doing God's work.

Philippians 2:13
for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

Rachel Wortham