Kim Keith - Children’s Director

Today’s chapter in the book, One Month to Live by Kerry and Chris Shook compares doing life without the power of God to pushing a motorcycle around the motor cross track without ever kick starting the engine. That would be pretty hard to do and a whole lot less fun than using the power available. So why do we try to do life powerless when the power is right there available?

I was thinking about one of the previous chapters this morning, the one that talked about our spiritual, emotional, physical and relational health. I was thinking that in my own power there is no way I can balance these and do life the way I need to. Every day I am going to try to start off the day by having at least 10 minutes of meditation time to read and pray and ask God to give me the power that only comes from Him to be spiritually healthy. Then I am going to ask Him to give me the drive to go do some sort of physical activity to stay physically healthy. For my relational well being I am going to try to send texts, emails, facebook messages or phone calls to let people know when I am thinking of them or thankful for them. So often we think nice things about people but we never let them know. If I only had 30 days left to live I would really want people to know how much they mean to me. Communication with others is a key to keeping the energy where it needs to be in a relationship. As far as emotionally goes, if my spiritual, physical and relational health is well, I believe emotionally I will be too. I think the biggest thing emotionally is rest. We all can get overwhelmed and run down and tired. God is our power source and our example. In Genesis it says on the seventh day He rested, so why do we think we are better equipped than God not to need to rest? The key is balance and realizing that in our own power we are not the energizer bunny, we cannot keep going and going and going without the true power source. We all need to recharge every day. I don’t want to be pushing around the track powerless I want to go full throttle, don’t you?