Daily Challenge #25

5 minutes. Do you have 5 minutes to spare? I was listening online to Craig Groeschel from Life Church in Oklahoma speak on his new book called Soul Detox. He was speaking of the toxins which corrupt our lives. You can listen to his 3 part message here. I originally found out about the book from this website. It's crazy how you can get from one place to another on the net without even really paying attention where you started from. I recommend listening to the message from Craig. It's a good one, especially part 3.

Back to where I started from: a question. Do you have 5 minutes? Do you think you can spend 5 minutes a day for 5 days straight thinking about nothing by God. Just sit and think of God - what He has done for you, what you are doing for Him, what He desires of you, etc.

Craig says it this way, "You don't have time to not be still before God."

This song by Casting Crowns helps me to realize the need I have to rely on God. Here are the lyrics.

Jesus, friend of sinners, we have strayed so far away
We cut down people in your name but the sword was never ours to swing
Jesus, friend of sinners, the truth's become so hard to see
The world is on their way to You but they're tripping over me
Always looking around but never looking up I'm so double minded
A plank eyed saint with dirty hands and a heart divided

Oh Jesus, friend of sinners
Open our eyes to the world at the end of our pointing fingers
Let our hearts be led by mercy
Help us reach with open hearts and open doors
Oh Jesus, friend of sinners, break our hearts for what breaks yours

Yeah...

Jesus, friend of sinners, the one who's writing in the sand
Make the righteous turn away and the stones fall from their hands
Help us to remember we are all the least of these
Let the memory of Your mercy bring Your people to their knees
No one knows what we're for only against when we judge the wounded
What if we put down our signs crossed over the lines and loved like You did

Oh Jesus, friend of sinners
Open our eyes to world at the end of our pointing fingers
Let our hearts be led by mercy
Help us reach with open hearts and open doors
Oh Jesus, friend of sinners, break our hearts for what breaks yours

You love every lost cause; you reach for the outcast
For the leper and the lame; they're the reason that You came
Lord I was that lost cause and I was the outcast
But you died for sinners just like me, a grateful leper at Your feet

'Cause You are good, You are good and Your love endures forever
You are good, You are good and Your love endures forever
You are good, You are good and Your love endures forever
You are good, You are good and Your love endures forever

Oh Jesus, friend of sinners
Open our eyes to world at the end of our pointing fingers
Let our hearts be led by mercy
Help us reach with open hearts and open doors
Oh Jesus, friend of sinners, break our hearts for what breaks Yours

And I was the lost cause and I was the outcast
Yeah...
You died for sinners just like me, a grateful leper at Your feet