TREASURES FROM HIM
Today's reading: Proverbs 2-3

"My child, listen to me and treasure my instructions." Proverbs 2:1

On a daily basis I speak to people who ask my to pray for them to know what God wants them to do. They tell me they want God's direction, His guidance and His answer regarding some big things, and some not so big things, in their lives.

Thing is? Well, the thing is, most of what we're asking God for instruction on, He's already provided answers for. Deep down in a Christian's heart lies a guiding force. Within in the pages of His Word, which is where He instructs us to be, are His directions.

But, what do we do with what He's telling us? Do we treasure His leadings? Do we hold ever so dear His nudges? Do we honor what He speaks to our heart with immediate and grateful actions?

Is what God tells us treasured at all? Or do we know the value of it?

I have things around the house I treasure: my old china with the yellow roses on it, a few rings, favorite books and photos. These things I have special places for. I put on display or I put back to keep them from being worn, bumped or used. I pull them out on special occasions. I drag them out to reminisce. I have them wrapped so gingerly that it takes effort on my part to exhume them from their vaults.

I also have things lying around, tucked into corners and hidden in cabinets that I place little value in: the old t-shirt I mow in, my kitchen broom, the dish towel I use only for sopping up spilled coffee. The mowing clothes lay in a semi-wrinkled mass in the bottom dresser drawer. The kitchen broom stands sentinel in the corner by the trashcan. The dish towel? The dish towel usually lays underneath the sink, unless it's dripping with coffee, when which it'll be found in the hamper on the back porch.

So, what do I do with His instruction? When I feel the nudge to do something I believe He's leading me to do--am I excited? Do I immediately act upon it with enthusiasm and zeal? Does thrill, that the Savior has spoken to my heart, fill my being?

Or do I shrug it off? Do I ignore it? Do I postpone what my heart's telling me to do until a more convenient time? Do I treasure instruction from the Lord at all?