Devotional Time with Rev. Jacob

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 68-70. Opening Thought: I greatly appreciate the effort by Nick to approach the conversation on negative thinking because it is challenging for those who are in a habit or disposition towards negative thinking to break those processes. This area of spirituality shares endless boarders with clinical phycology and social therapies. I have often been a big supporter of talk therapy and group therapies and encourage anyone religious or not...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 65-67. Opening Thought: There is the expression, hindsight is 20/20 – meaning, looking back I can see clearly. I think much in life is realized by this principle. I can’t remember what language it is, but one of the Biblical language has a word for moving forward or walking, but when you break the word down in its etymology (study of the history of words) they discover the words imply a looking backwards, as to look back to help you mo...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 62-64. Opening Thought: I enjoyed today’s devotional, it offered a sobering look at the negative thoughts people can have which blinds them to the possibilities in front of them. It is very easy to say, “have hope”, but when you are in the midst of depressive or anxious thoughts, it can be so challenging to bridge that gap and walk towards hope. I’m not sure if I could call myself depressive or anxious, I have those qualities for sure,...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 59-61. Opening Thought: Humor is extremely valuable to me. I’m not the funniest person, but I allow myself to dive into humor and wit. When I was a young teenager, I didn’t have the best health, so I didn’t always have the best confidence, so me and a friend (who also lacked confidence) developed a weird babbling story humor that got us through our adolescence. Humor can take you far, particularly when you can use it to not take yourse...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 56-7. Opening Thought: Nick speaks about how his parents did not limit him to social group that we all people with disability, rather they had him play with “normal” children in order to instill in him that he was normal, just missing limbs. There is a true struggle in finding the balance between “individuality” and “community”. I am seeing this tension building is society, people are trying to claim individuality, but they seem to be ...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 53-55. Opening Thought: Nick’s story, being born without limbs, is awe-inspiring. We all have challenges, but I don’t think many of us could believe someone with such a challenge could rise the way Nick did. This week the church band Band Together,  was singing a song Open the Eyes of my Heart. In the morning prior to the service I search the song on YouTube to remind myself of what it sounded like; I found a video of a blind auti...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 47-49. Opening Thought: I think there is a common misconception that if you’re a dedicated Christian that you don’t have any fun. Like somehow because we talk about being good, following God’s will, and humility in relation to sin, that somehow that translates into boring people that sit at home knitting socks all day and night. (No offence to the knitters out there, you people rock and keep the world warm!). However, whenever I meet a...

This blog is designed to give people an inner look at a devotional life. Taking time each day to spend time with the Lord. The hope is if you travel on this journey with Rev. Jacob Shaw, you may be more inclined to spend time with the Lord as well. I encourage the use of a devotional, a scripture reading and prayer, then finally a song, hymn or selection of poetry to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Vujicic, Nick.  Limitless Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life . Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2013. pp 44-46. Opening Thought: I took a few days off from Nick Vujicic’s book to allow my spirit to settle a bit. It had been a few long days with our son Ty, who is going through the roller coaster of teething. When I get tired I often move from a reading devotional time, to driving in my car, putting on some inspirational music or sermons and just sitting and listening, letting the analytical part of myself fall to the side. Returning to Ni...