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 92-95. Opening Thought: Today’s devotional reading was about putting yourself in the situation you need for success. This is a sound business practice, if you wish to sell basketball memorabilia and collectables setting up your sales booth at the opera is not likely your best option. We must think about where God is calling us and use the gifts God has given us to help position ourselves in the best possible way to give us the finest o...

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 89-91. Opening Thought: Look, then leap summarizes today’s post well. Vujicic speaks to a necessity to be discerning before running into things. That doesn’t mean you cannot have the ability to jump on opportunities, it just means use the brain God gave you, and take these opportunities with some seriousness. I believe we struggle between the line of impulsivity and discernment because the more thought we give to something, the more of...

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 86-88. Opening Thought: Nick talks about one of the slogans from another one of his books, Life Without Limbs, being, “another day, another opportunity. I enjoy this slogan as it frames each day as a fresh start, I think this become something highly important to remember especially as we get into the grind of adult life and work. Sometimes we get into a slump in our routine that we forget this valuable message, and in some cases we sta...

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 83-85. Opening Thought: Humans are wonderfully complex; we can do a lot of things on our own. As a little bit of a loner, I know that better than many, but I will certainly affirm John Donne’s words, “no man is an island.” Jesus created us to love the self but also to love the other; the foundations to a balanced society. We must care for the internal in balance with the external. Thus, no one should go it alone. Which means if you fee...

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 80-82. Opening Thought: One of the most fundamental lessons you can teach someone is to learn from failure. This is far more challenging than it sounds, despite it being so simple in theory. It becomes so challenging because the lesson calls us to be humble. Humility is key to this lesson. When we are pride-filled, we will stop ourselves from attempting something we are not experts in because we fear looking stupid, clumsy, ungifted, 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 77-79. Opening Thought: There is a tension with who we are as individuals and how we belong to our communities. We all have this tension. We struggle to know what makes us uniquely us, and we struggle to find a place to belong. Both goals we hope will gives us meaning, purpose, and stability in spirit and body. Today’s reading from Nick Vujicic was a humorous look at how we see this play out during the emotional extremes of adolescence...

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 74-76. Opening Thought: Today's devotional is great, as it speaks to God calling Nick into public speaking by putting him in a position Nick did not initially want to be in. God has a way of calling us it a dramatic fashion. I feel like when people ask for a sign from God, to point them in the right direction, people often want a sign that is cushiony and slow to approach them, but often it is the other way around. God has this dramati...

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 70-72. Opening Thought: My opening thought comes from just reading the title of today devotional. I have yet to dive into what is being offered but I am feeling wary. The reason for this is the title’s words I have heard too often in my life in the church. Many preachers will spout the words “God love you just the way you are.” This is a true statement but there is more to it. God love you because you are His creation, you have an inhe...