The Gap

My life would change radically if I just lived last Sunday’s gospel 100 percent.  There’s a gap between my life and the gospel.  Firstly, I have to recognize there is a gap.  And as I measure my life against the gospel, there is a pretty big gap.

The sin of comparison often creeps in.  When I compare myself to this world, I’m a pretty good Christian.  But how much of a gap is there, how much of a better Christian can I be, if I compare my life to the gospel.

Being a Christina requires proactive intentionality.  It requires me to actively seek out God and his will in the situations of my daily life and to work each day to close the gap between the person I am and the person HE created me to be.  It is striving to be the very-best-version-of-myself.  And that gives me life.

To close the gap I need to get close to Jesus.

The best ways to rediscover Jesus are:

Read the Gospels

Practice the Prayer Process

Deny Myself Daily

Practice Spontaneous Prayer

Our lives change when our habits changed.  God uses new habits to transform us.  These four habits will have a RADICAL impact on my life IF I allow them deep into my life.

Here is my fresh start! 

The Book of Matthew…starting today.

Jesus, give me the courage to begin and the courage to continue.

Amen.