Day 61 - Another Day Closer

Today felt good. I rode 44.6 miles in 2 hours and 5 minutes for an average of 21.3 mph. I do not know why but it felt good today to be on the bike, to go the speed I went, the thought of being in Alabama in just another day. I still stand an outside chance of finishing my ride by the end of next week. I need some feedback from you though. I am thinking about still using the blog to continue doing a Bible study but I will not do that if no one is reading it. Please give me some imput back. I seem to get sucked into a portion of Scripture and just can't let it go. That is what has happened with Psalm 100. What a beautiful Psalm but one with so much to say that as Christians we need to read, study, memorize, listen to, and live by. Last night I talked about serving the Lord as an act of being thankful to God. But in that same phrase he gives us instruction on the the right way to serve the Lord. He says, "Serve the Lord with gladness." So many of us want to serve the Lord for all the wrong reasons. And it is so easy to serve Him for all the wrong reasons. Too often we make our serving all about us rather than about Him. But saying to serve the Lord with gladness goes beyond serving Him for wrong reasons but explains how we should serve Him. I have gone to churches where greeters at the door looked like they had prunes for breakfast. They maybe doing what they signed on to do but are not happy about it. How many musicians, ushers, Deacons, Sunday School teachers, and helpers and maybe even Pastors look like they are glad to be doing what they are doing. Serve the Lord --- yes, but with gladness? Well maybe not. Jesus says "My burden is light." If that is true, why are we not glad to be doing burdens for the Lord? The Word also says that "i will never leave you or forsake you." The problem is that knowing the Lord is with us is not enough for far too many of us. It comes back again to what we have already said; We want the Lord to be with us but we want Him and..... Are you glad to know He is with you, that He will never leave us or turn His back on us? We should be and when we have Him that should make us glad without anything else being added to that knowledge. Lord I love you and I am so glad, so glad, that you love me. I hope you are too and that in all the ways you serve the Lord you are glad. Talk to you tomorrow.