Where did the weekend go?

Wow the weekend is over and the week begins. We are a funny creature. We live to get to the weekend and everything we do seems to be for that. Think about it when you are in the middle of you week you think wow its only Wednesday (humpday) then only two more days, when Friday hits it "TGIF", then guess what Monday again.

Well if you want to live your life in a ever revolving door then I guess that is for you. What I have and try to do is when people tell me "thank god its Friday" I say to them "yes it is and guess what? you have Monday to look forward to". Not a popular statement but it is that.

If you had someone to live your life for say your girlfriend or your spouse them all would be good....or perhaps not. We all need to take a step back and look at ourselves and decide what or who we are going to live for.

I choose to live for Jesus.

I found this in the devotional "My Utmost for His highest."
http://www.rbc.org/utmost/index.php

At the beginning of our life with Jesus Christ, we were sure we knew all there was to know about following Him. It was a delight to forsake everything else and to throw ourselves before Him in a fearless statement of love. But now we are not quite so sure. Jesus is far ahead of us and is beginning to seem different and unfamiliar— "Jesus was going before them; and they were amazed" (Mark 10:32 ).

There is an aspect of Jesus that chills even a disciple’s heart to its depth and makes his entire spiritual life gasp for air. This unusual Person with His face set "like a flint" (Isaiah 50:7 ) is walking with great determination ahead of me, and He strikes terror right through me. He no longer seems to be my Counselor and Friend and has a point of view about which I know nothing. All I can do is stand and stare at Him in amazement. At first I was confident that I understood Him, but now I am not so sure. I begin to realize that there is a distance between Jesus and me and I can no longer be intimate with Him. I have no idea where He is going, and the goal has become strangely distant.

Jesus Christ had to understand fully every sin and sorrow that human beings could experience, and that is what makes Him seem unfamiliar. When we see this aspect of Him, we realize we really don’t know Him. We don’t recognize even one characteristic of His life, and we don’t know how to begin to follow Him. He is far ahead of us, a Leader who seems totally unfamiliar, and we have no friendship with Him.

The discipline of dismay is an essential lesson which a disciple must learn. The danger is that we tend to look back on our times of obedience and on our past sacrifices to God in an effort to keep our enthusiasm for Him strong (see Isaiah 1:10-11 ). But when the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come the ability to follow Jesus truly, which brings inexpressibly wonderful joy