Luke 12:40 “Therefore you also be ready for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
Dear God,
I praise Your blessed name, for You are The, Holy, Majestic and Almighty God, as well as Creator of all life and matter. All Your creation is most beautiful to look at and to listen to! All that man makes, whether lovely, ugly, and productive or not, have all been made from the base materials that You have created. I appreciate that You have given each us in varying degrees these skills along with an industrious spirit. I also appreciate the end products that man/woman makes: such as lovely furniture, glass, clothes, or even delicious healthy meals, which reveal Your gifts in a way, that can cause people to remember and appreciate that there is an Almighty Creator. Sadly many live out their gift of life without care or thought, or even gratitude to their Creator. This unbelief and unmindful attitude can influence how we use and interact with Your creation, which can lead to widespread incautious destruction and slaughter. These attitudes too often predominate, in the use Your gift of food; causing industry to also pull it apart, deface it, refine it, and only use certain parts of the grain and other plant products, and thus producing end products, that cannot sustain healthy life. Alternatively these same ungrateful attitudes toward Your creative provision, is reflected when some of us choose because of unmindfulness or subliminal training, to largely refuse Your gifts of whole plant foods In preference for a diet that is predominately based upon flesh foods and animal products. There is such a varied variety of colourful plant foods that science verifies are beneficial for our health that You have provided. What a shame when we do not avail themselves of them.
Fill us (me) with Your care for those who are starving or have little nutritious food to eat.
In all our ungrateful, uncaring ways toward Your creation, please forgive our rudeness and humble our hearts before You, so we can seek You in humility of spirit upon our knees, and then to get to know You in Your Holy word. Strengthen us to do all to Your glory, which includes doing our (my) part in caring for my individual body and my environment.
Please forgive me for all my sins, but today especially reveal to me the ways in which I am not respectful to You, regarding how I feed and use my body, mind and soul, so that I can better prepare for eternal life with Jesus. But in the meantime, by the influence of the Holy Spirit I can be Your true and faithful child who is willing and has the strength to answer Your call to be used as Your influence for someone else to also find You as their personal Saviour.
I believe according to the scriptures, that Jesus is coming soon, and unless I tell others I do not really love You best, and am not serious about greeting Jesus as His child, along with many others.
That is a sobering thought that You have put into my mind today. Only by Your intervention and strength can I be and do as You desire. I am willing even though I know there will be a cost; as well as much joy.
Amen