Barb's Word of The Month

Women of Grace Ministries

June ~ 2007

June is the official beginning of summer, although our temperatures here in Ohio have been quite warm already. I always think of the song “Summer Time” when the livin’ is easy, fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high! I know most of my summers have been focused on Lake Vacations and baseball games in the past.

Summer is really a time to relax, slow down and find time to renew and refresh your walk with God. I love to meditate on Romans 12:2 “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world – but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Since our routine changes in the summer, this is a good time to stop and take notice of where our priorities have been. Our world is so caught up in living to please ourselves. If we want to live in the center of God’s will, we need to be willing to deny ourselves and focus more on God’s will instead of our own.  We are gradually being pressed into the world’s mold and don’t even realize that it is happening!  We need to let God renew and remold our minds from within! In order to do that; carve out some extra time with God.

The secret to living a life that is pleasing to God is to discover God’s will for you and then do it. Take time to connect with Him and seek His over all will for your life, his good, pleasing and perfect will. What could possibly be more rewarding! Let’s pray for each other to seek him each day and find the renewal we all need.

Barb