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Friday... There are things to be enjoyed but we don't experience them.


Friday... There are things to be enjoyed but we don't experience them.

My wife and I lived in Los Angeles for five years. One thing about living there is you work where you have to but live where you want to and that probably means some freeway driving. And that can be tough.

Well, in one of the places we lived we got up and left before the sun came up but the good thing about it was, we experienced the beauty of the sunrise five days a week. And we really enjoyed it. 

Also when we would visit our kids who lived in Las Vegas we would get up early on Sunday morning to get ahead of the traffic. And we would have the sunrise at our backs. The sunrise is an enjoyable time of the day that most of us don't experience. We love our sleep or the dark more than experiencing the beauty of the sunrise.

Proverbs 4:18 (NIRV) says, "The path of those who do right is like the sun in the morning. It shines brighter and brighter until the full light of day." And then verse 19, "But the way of those who do what is wrong is like deep darkness. They don't know what makes then trip and fall."

Have you thought about what it would be like to not have headlights on your car? Well, that is what it is like when you don't have God in your life?

Now the light of God's Word and his Spirit and his wisdom shows us the path ahead and all of the traps and debris in the way,   

Verses 10-13 (NLT) says, "My child, listen to me and do as I say, and you will have a long, good life. I will teach you wisdom's ways and lead you in straight paths. When you walk, you won't be held back; when you run, you won't stumble. Take hold of my instructions; don't let them go. Guard them, for they are the key to life."

Verse 18 in the Amplified Bible says, "But the path of the just (righteous) is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until [it reaches its full strength and glory in] the perfect day."

There is so much that God has for us to experience if we follow his light, his way, his instruction. So it might be a good and profitable thing to get us early and see and experience the sunrise and then get into God's Word. "Take hold of my instructions; don't let them go. Guard them, for they are the key to life." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


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