Hot - Cold - Lukewarm

Today is the third day of Lent. I have set a goal of posting a blog for each of the forty days before Easter.

 

What is the temperature of your Faith walk?

Hot - Cold - Lukewarm

 

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. Rev 3:15-16 NIV

If like me, you sometimes find yourself lukewarm in your Faith and spiritual walk, I think you will agree it is a very unsatisfying place to be. I am the only one who can change the unsatisfying lukewarm to the over the top satisfying Hot Faith walk.

God’s very Word tells me how to increase my Faith.

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. Rom. 10:17-18 NIV

There is the answer: my Faith fire will be fed by reading, and reading, and reading the Word of God.

My pastor has placed a challenge on our church that in 2011 we will all read through the entire Word of God. How could we not have spontaneous combustion.

The days leading up to Easter, our Lord's resurrection, is the perfect time to turn up the fire in our life.

GRUMBLE

I hate not feeling well. It messes up your day(s), week, however long it hangs on. My husband picked up a cold somewhere; if I knew where he had gotten it I would have made him take it back for a refund.

I kept my distance from him, loaded myself up with Black elderberry and Emergen-C and stayed healthy, for about six days. Friday night it made the transition from my husband to me and tacked on a few things he didn’t have, like that ache all over feeling. I’ve had good days and bad. Since I want to be done with this quickly I’ve stayed home a lot and rested.

It is hard to get enthused about anything when your body is under the weather. I don’t feel like eating, so I don’t feel like cooking. However, I do have a husband (may I remind you that he brought the cold home) who likes to eat. Do sandwiches count for a meal? I hope so because that is what he had last night, a chicken panini sandwich and tonight he gets a hot brisket sandwich.

I read five books since Friday and have done a little writing. I finished a story to submit to Chicken Soup and sent it off and have been working on my NaNo novel this afternoon. The Kleenex box has become a part of my necessary writing tools along with my Writer’s Thesaurus.

You would think that when I can’t do much physically I would be able to get a lot of writing done. Writing isn’t physically taxing, but I found that the creativity part of me is off. The scene I wrote for my character ended up being kind of nasty, hum, I may keep it, we’ll see. Anyway, all the above is to say sorry that I haven’t been blogging.

Hope you all stay healthy. I told my husband that the next time he gets sick I am sleeping in another bed.

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