A Blessed Mess Blog

You know, it's funny how you can hear or read something at a certain point in life and get a specific thing from it, but when you come across the same words later on in life, you get an entirely different message from those same exact words?  That's what happened to me this morning in my morning bible reading.  I'm going through my bible in it's entirety for the second time now and I'm all the way into Hebrews.  My morning read brought me to where it's being explained how Jesus' dying on the cross took the place of how back in the days of Moses and before Jesus came, the high priest once a year went into the temple and sacrificed for the sins of the people.  For a moment I wondered what it would be like to have lived back then...how people were constantly having to sacrifice animals on the alter for their sins.  Would there even be enough animals alive for me to sacrifice for all my sins?  I think of how many times on a daily basis I sin and I truly do won...

Oh my....I'm sitting here yelling at myself OUT LOUD during prayer.  It's Monday, January 12, 2015.  Last night's sermon at church was so on spot.  Brother James talked about how we should go about doing our daily jobs.  We should use our jobs to glorify God and praise Jesus.  We should not brag about our salvation and relationship with Him, and we should not lag in our performance and should do our best no matter what, and we should not sag as in go back to our old ways.  Well, this morning as soon as I awoke I reminded myself of the sermon and reassured myself that I was going to do my best to put it into practice.  So, when I got started I did two easy, quick jobs and then had time to read 5-6 chapters in my bible for my morning daily reading.  I was all set, ready to rock the Monday out with a good attitude and what I thought was a clean heart.  Boy, was I wrong.  Call it pride, call it ego...call it whatever , but whatever it was, i...