Daniel 10:21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

During this past week I have shared with you those things which I noted. I very well may have been the only one who made these notes. It came to me this morning as I was about to wrap up this series that what I noted is not all that is worthy of writing about. There were some really good points which might speak to others in ways that didn’t appear as important to me.

One is that I have made my choice to be a disciple of Christ. This saying from justifying grace didn’t impress me as it might others because I had already made my choice. Here it is.

Not make a choice is making a choice.

This subtle message was lost on me because I fit on the made a choice side of the fence. This issue is so true in all our life experiences yet we rarely give it much thought. Perhaps it is because we think we have time to make a decision and then we put off making a decision, which means we have allowed circumstances to dictate our fate.

This weekend it came to mind because I built a big beautiful deck for my remodeled house. It was expensive but the old one had not been treated properly and the wood did what wood does if not protected, it decayed. We talked about wood protection and we looked into all kinds of types of stains, paints, coatings, and renewal systems. The best was very expensive but was meant for older decks that had already begun to weather. We didn’t need that, this was a new deck.

Two years went by without making a decision. The deck is weathering, cracks have formed and now the decision has been made for us. Use the most expensive deck protection system or replace the deck in another two years.

So Jesus is offering the ultimate protective covering for free. Choose Him now because time is running out and decay will happen. Not choosing Jesus is choosing decay.

1 Timothy 4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

During walk 1807 it is all about the pilgrims on their walk, but God will not limit Himself to man’s plan and this devotional is about how God smacked me upside the head during my service to others. I have to admit I deserved it. This I confess.

I have the gift of prophecy and my ministry is using that gift to write a daily devotional about those things which God reveals to me thru that gift. Because these are words that are written on a website and delivered via the internet all over the world, I have no control over how it is received. I have to trust God.

This is not my only ministry. There is a ministry within the local body of Christ which is not written, it is spoken. Because it is spoken I do have some control over how that message is delivered. I have failed to control the words of my mouth because of the mindset used in delivering devotionals. I get to edit and reread and pray about what I release to my readers, not so with my mouth. Words spoken cannot be taken back.

Our spiritual director was given a word from a team member and he thought it was so good he used it. When he said it, smack, it hit me.

“I don’t care how much you know. I want to know how much you care.”

When I go into life groups with the same attitude in which I do my devotional ministry, I fail to touch my brothers and sisters with the only thing that matters in that setting, how much I care. If I wound a brother or sisters with my words, I fail them and I fail my Lord. This is the one great truth in all this…..

When you wound a brother you wound yourself because you are one body in Christ.