I've been reading the lessons every day and formulating in my head my thoughts. I think I need to go old school and use pad and pencil. Lol.
I need to be more disciplined in keeping Christ the center of my life. I need to wake up in the morning and before I crawl out of bed, I need to say, "Good morning, Lord. Thank you for giving me another day to serve you."
I (we), should start our day by reading His Word. These bible lessons are helping me with that. This will prepare us for the day.
Everything I set out to do for the day, I should have the mind set that I'm doing it for the Lord. Everything should be an act of worship. When I was a new Christian, I was in Sunday school for this lesson. It floored me. I've always hated doing the dishes. So I asked the Pastor, "Do you mean even when I do the dishes, I need to do them for the Lord?" The whole class cracked up, including him! He replied, "Yes, even when doing the dishes." I got to say, when I go into anything with that mind set, it's a much more pleasant experience!
It also kind of leads into today's thoughts. If/when I do all of this, it prepares me to go out in the world. To be the iron band on the rim. People will be able too see Christ in me and through me in my everyday actions. They see the difference, the joy, the holiness. And if they see this, they see Jesus. To me that's what it means to be holy, to be sanctified, set apart.