Get Up!!! No More Excuses!!

Good morning!
I pray you had a great weekend! Was it productive? Did you get to relax some? Spend time with your family? These things are important in our lives!!

Well, you know what time it is - so let's get going! We are in Proverbs 26 and my bold print is verse 13 in the NLTse & MSG versions.

13 (NLTse) "The lazy person claims, "There's a lion on the road! Yes, I'm sure there's a lion out there!" 13 (MSG) "Loafers say, "It's dangerous out there! Tigers are prowling the streets!" and then pull the covers back over their heads"

We come up with some ridiculous reasons for not getting up earlier to have our quiet time don't we? You might have first looked at this verse and said, "I go to work, Coach! I get up on time to get to work!". OK, that may be true; but in a earlier post we talked about the fact that the Word is primary in our lives and hearing the Word is essential!! Well, do you make it essential by getting out of bed to "hear it" and spend quiet time with the Lord? (I hope you are not trying to have quiet time LYING in bed, Gamers...you know what will (snore) happen............)

OR do you make excuses and say, "just a few more minutes"; and pull the covers back over your head? Then all of a sudden you wake up -- too much time has gone by -- and now you have to fly around around the house so you can get to work on time!! NOW, you haven't heard the Word; you are poorly equipped to enter your day, and make the same ol' dumb mistakes that could be avoided IF you had "applied your heart to wisdom" earlier!!!

This has "guilted" me too, Gamers! I have been undisciplined about getting up earlier and it has affected me as well!! And as I compose this post; I am thinking of ways to get back on track!!! (Like turning off the TV and going to bed earlier the night before............)

So, let's agree together to STOP MAKING EXCUSES!! There are "no lions out there" preventing us from getting up earlier!! The lions "is" US and our ridiculous excuses!!! I know that I like to feeling of empowerment that I have when I get up early; start the day right with the Word & quiet time with the Lord!!!

"Getting up early: hard to do -- the power you receive when you do it -- PRICELESS!!"

Stay in the Game!!