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 some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 4: Compare Yourself to Who You Were Yesterday, Not to Who Someone Else Is Today, pp. 85 - 96 Opening Thought: Before diving into the words of Peterson this week, I already find myself pleased by this rule. I know in my own spiritual growth and worldly ambitions I struggle to be satisfied by where I am at. I am, in many ways, an ambitious person, so I often find myself longing for more growth, accomplishment, and development of knowledge and s...

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 some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 3: Make Friends with People Who Want The Best For You pp. 75 - 83 Opening Thought: From where we left off, Peterson takes a winding road to make a bold claim. The zigzagging nature of these pages was not formed out of vanity, rather they were meant to open the readers to a wider consideration of the difficulty in having healthy relationships in their lives. For people to move towards a better version of themselves, they must seek ideals. Ideals in t...

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 some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 3: Make Friends With People Who Want The Best For You pp. 65 - 75 Opening Thought: To begin this third rule, Peterson shares information about his childhood, and some of the people he grew up with. In Peterson's depiction, he tells us about three individuals who had a depressive disposition: drug abuse, anger, and lack of self-preservation to name a few of the characteristics that Peterson describes. The long-term stories of these people did not pla...

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 some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 2: Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible For Helping – part 2 pp. 49 - 65 Opening Thought: A very interesting conclusion to the second rule. In a nutshell, Peterson says that people are likely to not care for themselves, because at some level we hold a resentment against ourselves. This resentment is born out of our awareness that we each fall short of ideals and the Ideal (being God). We cannot help but feel shame to some extent, so as ...

  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 some form of artistic mark to tie it all together.  Today's devotional is taken from: Peterson, Jordan B.  12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos . Great Britain: Penguin Random House, 2018. Rule 2: Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible For Helping – part 2 pp. 44 - 49 Opening Thought: I was hoping to finish rule two today, but there was so much good stuff, I am going to have to split it into two portions just to make it all fit. Today we are talking about the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, and the snake. Most people chalk up the Genesis story of creation to a kind of "pretend thing" made up by primitive people from ancient t...