{"id":6711,"date":"2012-04-18T05:57:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2012-04-18T06:25:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T14:25:19","slug":"readiness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=6711","title":{"rendered":"Readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>God called to him . . . . And he said, \u2019Here I am\u2019 \u2014Exodus 3:4<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div id=\"post-992\">\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OHUppFNjy5E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"575\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe>.<br \/>\nWhen God speaks, many of us are like people in a fog, and we give no answer. Moses\u2019 reply to God revealed that he knew where he was and that he was ready. Readiness means having a right relationship to God and having the knowledge of where we are. We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. Yet the man or woman who is ready for God and His work is the one who receives the prize when the summons comes. We wait with the idea that some great opportunity or something sensational will be coming our way, and when it does come we are quick to cry out, \u201cHere I am.\u201d Whenever we sense that Jesus Christ is rising up to take authority over some great task, we are there, but we are not ready for some obscure duty.Readiness for God means that we are prepared to do the smallest thing or the largest thing\u2014 it makes no difference. It means we have no choice in what we want to do, but that whatever God\u2019s plans may be, we are there and ready. Whenever any duty presents itself, we hear God\u2019s voice as our Lord heard His Father\u2019s voice, and we are ready for it with the total readiness of our love for Him. Jesus Christ expects to do with us just as His Father did with Him. He can put us wherever He wants, in pleasant duties or in menial ones, because our union with Him is the same as His union with the Father. \u201c. . . that they may be one just as We are one . . .\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+17:22\">John 17:22<\/a>).Be ready for the sudden surprise visits of God. A ready person never needs to <em>get<\/em>ready\u2014 he is ready. Think of the time we waste trying to get ready once God has called! The burning bush is a symbol of everything that surrounds the person who is ready, and it is on fire with the presence of\u00a0 God\u00a0 Himself .<\/div>\n<div>___________________________________________________________________<\/div>\n<p>April 18, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Journal Entry for Today-JDV<\/p>\n<p>Lord,<\/p>\n<p>Like the song and devotional today, I would like to be ready at all times, and Lord I would rather not just \u201cgo through the motions\u201d. Sometimes I feel as if I am just going through the motions and I am only ready for those things that I like, enjoy or understand. Or I am ready for You when I am in desperate need or hurting. Please help me be ready and willing to follow You wherever and whenever you lead, even when it is not about my needs or\u00a0I do not understand where and why\u00a0You are directing me.\u00a0Please make me a man after Your own heart.<\/p>\n<p><em>And God says\u2026\u201dWhen you keep your eyes on Jesus, you are transformed. You are instantly ready for whatever comes your way when you are connected to Him. It is not you that is ready and willing; it is Christ inside of you; ready, willing and able, all the time. Stay connected to Jesus, ask Him to take control of your day to day, minute by minute life, and He will make and keep you ready throughout your day. And you can be certain that you will not \u201cjust go through the motions\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God called to him . . . . And he said, \u2019Here I am\u2019 \u2014Exodus 3:4 . When God speaks, many of us are like people in a fog, and we give no answer. Moses\u2019 reply to God revealed that he knew where he was and that he was ready. 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