REPLAY

It's time for the 'end of the day replay.'

Run thru your day -- conversations - thoughts - events - meetings - situations ---- how'd you do?  How much like Jesus were you?

Go back to the critical moments.  Maybe it will be a moment where you actually were sensitive to God and His Spirit and you can celebrate that win and resolve to have more of them in future.

Maybe it will be a moment your heart got a little aggressive toward someone -- or stony perhaps -- edgy -- maybe you'll remember a circumstance where you turned a wrong direction.

It's time for the 'end of the day replay.'

The beauty of this kind of exercise is that it allows us to catch wrong decisions before they blossom into more full-blown direction, consequence or sin.  And it encourages us to repeat the good ones so they become instinctive life habits.

The more you practice 'end of the day replays,' the more they will start invading the actual moment of choice.  When the temptation comes - when the urge comes - when the thought comes - to walk or run in a wrong direction, you begin to train yourself to say: 'Hold on!  I refuse to let this become a moment I'll have to deal with later on tonight, so I'll choose another direction right now.'

"Search me God, and know my heart.  Test me and know my thoughts.  See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting."  (Ps. 139:23, 24)

That prayer of examination will change your sensitivity right there in the moment of decision, rather than later on.

God is all for running.  It's just the direction of the run that's so important.

"The Name of the Lord is a strong tower.  The righteous run to it and are safe." (Prov. 18:10)

So run.  Run with everything inside you.  Just run toward God, not away.

Then replay that over and over.

And be blessed.