June 23

God gets weary – wow! He gets weary when people exchange what he has given them for what sin gives them. He gets weary especially when they are religious and offer sacrifices and continue to be unjust, drunks and self-absorbed. There are a lot of lessons from today’s reading, but here is the one for me. God wants me to be real!

I don’t want to weary my God. I want to be real – as real in daily living as I am at church. I am thinking about Peru and how I will be living there. It won’t be the same. I will become something I am not here – more powerful, confident, directed. I think that it is not an act, but a desire, maybe an expectation I put on myself. I want to be that here as well, but it seems easier when you are on a mission. It brings you up a level, maybe two or three! It’s like you have permission to be that there. You are honored greatly by the people and they expect something great out of you – maybe that is the difference. It helps me believe what is true.

Oh God, help me to retain the glory you gave me and exchange no good thing for evil or even “natural”. Help me to walk in your authority and power everywhere and to love the fatherless and poor.