It’s been a great week so far, and that’s something I feel like I don’t hardly ever say. I say, I feel like it’s gonna be a rough week, or by Wednesday I feel like I’ve been drug rough through the mud. But I’m thankful it has been a great week!

I started the week off with a great thought and prayer.

Sunday morning, our pastor preached about the blind man healed on the side of the highway. As the man got up to go towards Jesus, he shed his garment. The garment would get in his way, it was a hindrance. Just think, a blind man trying to hasten with fabric around him hanging down. If that were me I’d surely fall, but I digress. So the pastor let his suit jacket fall off behind him as he told his. To shed the hindrance. As he preached he left it there, he didn’t worry about it. After service, someone had laid it on the pew; he picked it up and put it on without giving it a second thought.

Later that night during evening service, he spoke about that and said it didn’t occur to him until afterwards, how easily he picked it up and put it on, leaving the church.

That’s what we do. We go to church Sunday morning, take our ‘old man’ coat off for a moment, then how quickly we are to pick up when we leave. Pick it up on our way out the door without even a thought.

That really resonated with me. I can be so high in the spirit of God, and then how quickly I fall. Thankfully, God is as quick, or faster, at picking me up than I am falling. When I’m not stubborn for him to do so.

So my prayer for this week, was for God not to even let me reach for the ‘old man’ jacket. I felt for a moment I looked at on the ground the other night, but I didn’t pick it up. I was to keep God’s covering on always. I thank him for that, and keeping me from putting on any hindrance that takes my eyes off of him. Amen.