Without Him...I am NOTHING...

During my devotional I felt this overwhelming sense of peace, but in the days since it ended I have felt myself being pulled back into the lull of every day life.  I haven't changed the way I live...I still have my daily patterns, but I am back into the prayer at the end of the day instead of the continuous conversation.  I have noticed that my eyes are starting to focus back on what's ahead instead of  seeing the small things God is doing minute by minute or hour by hour.  The only way to describe it is going from walking hand and hand with Jesus to veering off at the fork in the road - you can still see Him, but you aren't as close as you want to be.


Life is so busy.  There are so many things that I want to do in this next year.  Personal accomplishments that I know I can complete, but I know that without making my relationship with God my number one priority none of that matters.  


I have never been a fan of 1 Corinthians 13 because I feel like it is overused, but writing this I keep thinking "Without Christ, I am but a resounding gong or clanging symbol" so that's what I will finish this post with, but when I read it I will replace love with Christ because without Him, I AM NOTHING. 

1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.