Routine

Has my time with God become routine? Am I just going through the motions with You, my creator, my hope, my salvation? Shouldn't I be filled with your Holy Spirit Power and shouldn't I be screaming it from the mountain tops to a dying and hopeless world just as Jesus did (John 7:37-38)? But let's face it, most days it is all I can do just to get out of bed and face the day before me.  And don't even get me started on traffic or people getting offended if I wear the wrong shoes or something....I feel so angry sometimes and I feel like there is nothing to look forward to because I lose sight of the most amazing event in my future....meeting Jesus face to face.  Why is it that I can't gush with the joy of that event?  Why am I not running into the streets and sharing the Gospel with others?  Why am being so polite about the Power that is Jesus?  It is the power to save your eternal soul from bondage and to set it free for an eternity of perfection.  In Romans 1:16 Paul said he wasn't ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God for salvation!!!  Think of how beautiful the horror of the cross was, Christ crucified in our place so that we could be with Him forever.  He chose that so we would have a choice.  We get to choose how we will spend forever!  Let me not take it for granted and let me share it daily with all who would listen.  Let your power and love flow out of me, unhindered and unashamed!  If I walked down the street and saw that someone was on fire, wouldn't I desperately seek water and drench them with it?  And yet I have living water coursing through my veins and I am not pouring it out on people when I encounter them.  Help me Lord, disrupt my routine, invade my heart with a fresh and real desire to tell people about you and your life-saving power.  Let me be filled with fresh Holy Spirit power and let it flow from my heart so that it soaks those around me.  Free me from my polite silence in the hope that no one labels me as crazy or charismatic or over the top about this Jesus character and help me to share boldly in love all that you have done and continue to do for me.  I praise you and thank you for salvation and the hope you have given to all who would believe in you!