Preparing for Sunday

It's another late night getting ready to encounter God tommorrow. I have to do this and finish that. Everything needs to be ready.

When you know that you have an important appointment with someone, how do you prepare? Do you straggle in late unprepared for the questions that may be asked of you? Not committed to even give the time it takes to give your best? Or do you seek to be the best during that visit?

I know sometimes I get sloppy with God. He is so great, so grand and many times I can give Him my leftovers. I may "look" prepared but am I really? Is my heart ready for the encounter? Do I even want it to happen sometimes knowing that it will mean change in some of the things I am doing? Sometimes the encounter makes me uncomfortable,...with me.

Lord, I'm sorry. You know I desire to know You and all of Your ways. Forgive me, as Your child, in and for the laziness of my life. Focus me, Lord, to desire You from my inner man. Lord, I love You.

May I say and mean the words of John, the beloved of Christ...

1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.