31 Days of Chasing THE Light - Day 1 { Day 273 }

Chasing THE Light 2017 – Day 1

Welcome to 31 Days of Chasing THE Light! Here I am again writing on this topic because I struggle with this. Every. Single. Day. 

Today’s verse is Psalm 23:6 and I just love how the Message version reads: “Your beauty and love chase after me every day of my life. I’m back home in the house of God for the rest of my life.”

He chases me every day and most days I miss it.

I miss it and lately I’ve allowed my old habits to sneak back in. Checking email or social media before coming to Him. Having my face stuck in my phone while missing the ways He speaks to me. For me, He speaks in the beauty of His creation. He can woo me with a sunrise and sunset that stops me in my tracks. I don’t always see things through His lens but when I do…I reach for my camera.  He chases me through the eyes and actions of my children. He chases me through a conversation I’m having with my husband.  But I haven’t been paying attention.

What are we chasing these days? Our schedules? Our status? Our cravings? What has us wrapped up so tightly that we reach for it when we are still. We have to have it...and lately for me…it hasn’t been Him. When we reach for it…that’s what has the choke hold on us.

He chases me and I miss it. I’m too busy to pause. I’m too blind to see. I’m too deaf to hear Him. All the busyness – the noise – it has me too distracted to even notice Him. And He is everywhere!

What if we paused in the hurry? Would we not say that thing we may regret later?

What if we shifted our perspective to see things how He would see them? Maybe try and see through His filter and not our own distorted one?

What if we opened our ears and really listened to that person talking to us? Would we hear those things we need to hear?

I’m inviting you on my journey of chasing Him for the next 31 days and hopefully making this a part of me – something that I will notice quickly if I start to walk away again. Like oxygen to my lungs. Let’s come up for air – and Chase THE Light together.

Focus: Think about this verse throughout the day and notice when He is chasing you. When you notice…put all your focus on it and thank Him.

Zoom in (journal): Write out this verse in your journal.  Personalize it.  For example: “Michelle, my beauty and love chase after you every day of your life. My house, Michelle, is your home, forever.” Ask yourself what am I chasing? What am I racing to instead of Jesus? Do you ever feel God pursuing you?

Capture: Where did you see His Light? Did you spread some light? Did you see your world through His lens?

No matter what happens today…His beauty and love are chasing us.

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