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I like it when the first day of a new month lands on either a Sunday or a Monday. I know Sunday is technically the 1st day of a new week, but it has always felt like Monday is the beginning to me and the first day of a new month motivates me to make it a good month...

For the past couple of days, I've been ignoring this nagging in the back of my mind... The best word I can think to put it into 1 word is: LUKE WARM.

Revelation 3:15-16: "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth."

I can't disagree. I've been walking the fence for a while now. I love God, but I always keep 1 foot in the world - afraid that if I completely sell out to Christ, I'll somehow be losing out on something 'better' on the other side of the fence. I know, in my heart, that that is a lie and that it's not correct. Ugh.

It doesn't help that I've completely pulled away from the body of believers that God has placed in our lives. I have my little shopping lists of 'reasons why' ... but I know they're really just excuses.

Matthew 16:24-26a: Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?

I could probably write a very very long entry today, but I'm not sure who it would benefit. I think I need to just be still and wait on the Lord. When things get too loud - and it's usually my own doing - I lose sight of what really matters. Definitely need to settle down and just listen.

Psalm 46:10a: Be still, and know that I am God.

Have a good Monday!