Connecting With Jesus

Our Manna this morning is shared by Sis. Mamalove Nojaqui

A joyful Sabbath to all🙏❤️ here’s another bread for life from the Lord this Sabbath Day😊🙏

“That One Thing”

From bible text
1 John 2:6
Nkjv
6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

Life gets busy, and the urgent can squeeze out the important and even necessary if we’re not careful. Our cup can get pushed aside, left empty, collecting dust, filled with “other things” like coins or trash or even something old and disgusting!

Clutter…it just kind of sneaks up on us. It makes it harder to find things. It can distract us from our work and productivity. It can bring a heaviness.

Sometimes clutter can even cause us to lose sight of the necessary, the most important, the one thing needed above all else.
When we carry around a lot of “stuff”, it begins to become heavy and weigh us down. It may be time we sat down and asked ourselves – “What things are necessary?”

Let’s take time to evaluate what we have in our lives. First and foremost, let’s make sure we know and have Jesus as our Lord and Savior. It is He that truly makes life worth living; it is He who gives us purpose and both eternal and abundant life! (John 13:16-18; John 10:10)

And if we are believers in Christ, are there things we’re carrying along that are weighing us down?

Things we worry or are anxious about? (Philippians 4:4-8)
Things we are trying to control ourselves?
Any unforgiveness or bitterness?
sometimes called the “grudge sludge”!
Busyness causing us to be too busy to pray, too busy to spend time in God’s Word, too busy to see the needs of others around us.
How long does your clutter hang around and distract you? It may be longer than you think. Often, we just get used to it and overlook it. It doesn’t really bother us anymore, and we hardly even notice it until…it does!
We are all different. What is it that may be keeping us from sitting at the feet of Jesus and walking like He walked?
(1 John 2:6) Let’s face it – Jesus traveled light; He knew what mattered and what was necessary.

“Unnecessary” and “unneeded” things come in many different forms. Let’s take them to the one place we can leave them…at the feet of Jesus! Let’s run this race unhindered and not weighed down, allowing our cup to be clean and ready for use…ready to be filled with One thing – Jesus!

Have a blessed Sabbath Day🙏❤️