Wednesday, March 26, 2008

40 Days

Sunday was our first official day to start reading the Purpose Driven Life. I hope you have enjoyed your devotional time with God each day. For many of us, this is forming a healthy new habit of setting aside dedicated time for God in our pursuit to grow closer to Him. For others, you are reinforcing a previous commitment you made to Him, and He is well pleased.

Scripture is very clear about the significance of a 40 day journey. A great number of people that God used to change this world and the lives of others had to go through a 40 day transformation. To some, that transformation was seeing the vision of a new land. Others, however, were changed on the inside. They needed a reformation of their attitude, trust in God, and dedication to their purpose.

What will 40 days do for you? Do you need to be reinvigorated by seeing a vision of where God wants you to go? How about renewing your trust in Him and what He plans for your life? Maybe, you need to reform your attitude and begin to see life as peaceful, beautiful, and as joyous as God meant for it to be. Whatever the change may be, let's embrace it over the next 40 day period of our lives.

Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the LORD.
~Exodus 34:28-29

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Until next week...

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