I try to be out the front door & on my morning run by 5:30am. Stretching beforehand is a priority. My old bones crack & pop as I twist & bend. Apparently there is this zone between sleep & activity that cannot be rushed lest a different kind, a damaging kind, of cracking & popping takes place.

Cannot the same be said for our spirits? Shouldn’t there be some adjusting of our heart & mind before facing the world? You may have fallen asleep uttering sweet prayers & praises to our Savior but by the time you wake your spirit needs attention. Paul tells us in Romans 12:2, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test & approve what God’s will is — His good, pleasing and perfect will.”

Don’t just jump out of bed & into the world! Stretch, move, transform your mind by spending at least a little bit of time in God’s Word. Be sure it’s a Christian radio station you’re tuned into as you drive to work or do your morning chores. You don’t want to miss God’s will for your life ever — after all, it’s “good, pleasing, & perfect.”

– Pastor Joel Everhart