Slider or Riser

"Slider or Riser"

Scripture Reading:
Galatians 6:8 (HCSB) because the one who sows to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Devotional Reading:

Let me ask you something about your mindset: Are you a slider or a riser? When you get up in the morning, are you a slider or a riser? I’m a riser. I jump out of bed and go from zero to sixty in nothing flat. I do not linger.  But Silvia is a slider.  She needs to lie still for a little bit and wake up gradually.  I am usually up and out before she can get one eye open. Generally, risers go to sleep quickly…like between “good” and “night.” That’s it. They’re down and out in a matter of seconds! But sliders ease into sleep the same way they ease into waking.  on this issue we are opposite.  I must ease into sleep if I will get it; while Silvia can be out in nothing flat; unless our course we are wired!  Regardless of whether we are sliders or risers, the time to set our minds is when we first wake. At that moment we must turn our thoughts toward God. If we ignore this opportunity to set our minds on the things of God, we give the devil a foothold, and soon—without our even knowing it—we have set our minds on the flesh. And the mind set on the flesh, Paul tells us, is death. But if we turn our minds and hearts God-ward, and set our thoughts on Him, what a difference it will make in the way we live. Which sounds better to you? A mind set on death, or a mind set on life and peace? it.

Keep the Son in your eyes,

Pastor Ben J Lahay

Galatians 2:20