If Jesus Came to Visit You Today

I'm setting here doing therapy and just wondering, how would I live my life if Jesus came to visit me today?

What would be the first words out of my mouth as I awoke?
What would I do prior to breakfast?
Would I pray at breakfast and other meals?
Would I have a quiet time with Him in the morning or a devotional at breakfast? How rushed would it be?
What would my drive in to work be like?
Would I take Him along to work or would I leave home alone till later, or even until Sunday?
What would my work decisions be like?
Would I put a different focus or level of quality on my work?
What would my coffee lounge conversations be like?
How would I communicate with employees and customers?
Would I talk with and consult Him all day or would I leave Him setting alone in the lounge?
Would I make the same stops after work?
Would I say and think the same things in 5:30 traffic?
Would I get home, have an instant dinner, and drop in the recliner with the TV on for all evening or the video games or facebook gaming sites, or would I find something that Jesus might rather prefer doing with me?
Would I respond to my spouse in the usual manner?
Would I discipline the children in the same way?
Would I spent a different level of quality time with them?
Would I put them to bed in the same manner?
Would I use my private time after dinner in the usual manner?
Would I go to the same movie Friday evening or the same club on Saturday night?
Would I prepare for sleep in the same way as usual?
As I roll over in bed to go to sleep, what would be my last thoughts and words of the day?

I'm sure I left out many activities of your or my day, but I'm just sitting here wondering how much like usual our day would be, if Jesus came to visit you or me today?

You know, He did visit you (and me) today.    

I'm just not good enough!!!

I’m just not good enough!!!

Lord, I love you for all I know how. As best as I know how, I have surrendered my life to your control and your desires. I know you look with special favor on those that, in awe, tremble at your Word (Isa 66:2) and are broken and contrite in self (Ps 51:17) and passionate toward you. That is my heart’s cry and daily goal. I believe you and your Word. I do have faith in you. I speak your Words and claim your promises. Out of honor to you and your worthiness, I endeavor to keep you and your desires at the forefront of my mind and ahead of my personal needs and blessings that you have promised me. I simply, want my life to  honor you!

Still………… I’m just not good enough!!!

I could have the faith of the strongest Bible-time disciple or the current-day’s most boisterous or genuine “faith teacher”, I could be as humble and full of servanthood as Mother Teresa on “humble-steroids”, I could spend all day in your Word and all night in my prayer closet, I could see visions, make great prophesies and speak in unknown tongues, I could help lead the entire world to faith in Jesus Christ, and ……..

 

Still………… I’m just not good enough!!!

 

Your Word makes many promises based on our faith, and on our surrender, and on our broken and contrite spirit, and on our level of intimacy with you. And I believe you! But I also hear you say that, “There is none righteous, no not one.” (Rm 3:10-12)  I know that my strongest righteousness is as the most “filthy of rags.” (Isa 64:6)  If I’m Peter, or Paul, or Mother Teresa, or the greatest TV evangelists, even then, at my very best ….

 

Still………….. I’m just not good enough!!!

 

But Lord, I need you! I need and desire your dynamic presence and power in my life. I’m laying my best out there, because you ask for it, you deserve it, and I love you. But, in spite of it all, in the end…..

 

Still…………… I’m just not good enough!!!

So, I’m asking you to do something big for me, that I DO NOT DESERVE!!! I’m asking you to look past me (and my best efforts and worst failures) and when you look my way, I’m asking you to see your Son, Jesus Christ! And I’m asking you to move in my life, not because of my goodness, but because of HIS PERFECTION, HIS GODLINESS, HIS MERCY! Please move, for your honor and glory and because of your unfathomable MERCY in giving me the very “righteousness of God through the work of your Son, Jesus Christ!” (2 Cor 5:21) If you don’t see Him when you look my way, I’m sunk! And even my strongest faith means nothing! But through your mercy, you have promised that when you look at me you will see Him and His Holiness! Thank you! Your Words says it is truth and I do not deserve it, but I am counting on…….

HIM……….. to be good enough!!!