How do you fall asleep at night? What is your routine? Do you read a book, watch TV, pray talk to your spouse, shower? We all have them, the routines that we do without thinking each and every night before we close our eyes and go to sleep. Routines are sometimes started very early in life, think about the routines to put your child to bed, is it a bedtime story, saying their prayers, kisses all around, that last glass of water, whatever it is routines are part of our lives.
What if we started a new bedtime routine? What if this new routine was able to totally transform your life? In the book of Joshua the children of Isreal are told the following:
Joshua 3:5 Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow The Lord will do wonders among you.
Wow, sanctify yourselves, now that is a radical idea for a bedtime routine. Now sanctify yourself means to make yourself clean, dedicate yourself, prepare yourself.
Think about it, what if instead of catching up on the latest news or sports scores before bed you cleansed your mind of worldly things to focus on Godly matters? What if you spent the last few moments before falling to sleep meditating on the Word of God? Spent time in prayer thanking God for the day you just had but also anticipating all that God was going to do tomorrow? Remember the verse says Sanctify yourself for tomorrow The Lord will do wonders among you.
Do you ever stop and think, "I wonder what The Lord has in store for tomorrow? Look at all the miraculous things He did for me today, tonight I wait in anticipation with what tomorrow will bring."
How would our lives be changed, what could tomorrow bring, if each night before we went to bed, we sanctified ourselves in anticipation of what God would do tomorrow?
Why not give it a try, join me for the next 21 days in going to bed every night by sanctifying ourselves in anticipation of what wonders God is going to do.
Please let me know if you are in, and share what God does in the next 21 days in your life.
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