Week Three - Day One: End of Day

Let’s take some time to reflect tonight. Again, I urge you don’t blow by these questions. Linger over them for real answers.

1. Do you consider yourself someone who regularly seeks God?
2. If you have tried to seek God in the past, what kinds of things have you done? Are there things that work for you in connecting to God? Are there things that have not worked?
3. How would you characterize your usual experience when you have tried to seek God?
   1. I often experience God’s presence when I seek Him. I feel like He is very near.
   2. I sometimes experience God’s presence, but don’t always know why I do and why I don’t.
   3. I feel like a day laborer at the 7 Eleven.
   4. I have no idea what God’s presence feels like.
   5. Other
4. Diane, my wife, likes to say that we do not need to think so much about what God wants from us. We need, instead, to think about what God wants for us. What more does God want for you?
5. Consider sharing some of your answers in the comments below.
6. Look at Psalm 105:1-6. (I have linked it to the New Living Translation. I like that version of this Psalm.)

   (1) Give thanks to the LORD and proclaim his greatness.
         Let the whole world know what he has done.

   (2) Sing to him; yes, sing his praises.
         Tell everyone about his wonderful deeds.

   (3) Exult in his holy name;
         rejoice, you who worship the LORD.

   (4) Search for the LORD and for his strength;
         continually seek him.

   (5) Remember the wonders he has performed,
         his miracles, and the rulings he has given,

   (6) you children of his servant Abraham,
         you descendants of Jacob, his chosen ones.

   Psalm 105:1-6

   1. What are the verbs in this passage?
   2. What would it look like for you to do those verbs tomorrow?
7. End your day by praying this: “Guide us waking, O Lord, and guard us sleeping; that awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in peace.”
8. Lights out!