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    If you do not take the time to get your job done and to take care of the details, poverty will quickly overtake you. I find proverbs like this a challenge. I know that I am lazy and love sleep more than I ought. This reminds me not to procrastinate, but get things done when they need to be done.

    When trouble stalks the land, let us cry out to God. Let us serve Him so that when He acts to save us He will be glorified.

    Prayer is clearly the topic God is after me about. Yesterday, in the passage from Colossians, Paul’s instruction to devote ourselves to prayer struck me. Today, the first thing to strike my eyes was Paul saying that he prayed constantly. As a result of his prayer, the Holy Spirit reinforced Paul’s words with power giving those who heard assurance that he spoke the truth. If we fill our lives with prayer the Holy Spirit will give us joy, even in the midst of suffering.

    We were made to cling to God the way a loincloth is made to cling to a man’s waist. If instead of doing so we follow our own desires and worship things other than God, God will rot away our pride and bring destruction upon us. God desires that we act to bring glory to His name by living lives which respect Him. Let us abandon our pride and give glory to God before it is too late.