When you get as old as I am, you really don't learn much of anything new, you just relearn.  Mind you, I'm not OLD, I've just been around a while.  Solomon tells us in Ecclesiastes that there is nothing new under the sun and one thing that is definitely not new is the fact God never changes.  So why are we surprised when He continues to do what He always does?  In fact, the only times He doesn't do it, is when we don't do our part.  Maybe that's why we get surprised.  So, what is it that I have relearned, you ask? 

Well, ever since I have retired, I have had the luxury of not really having to discipline my time.  And I have been noticing that a lot of my projects aren't getting finished.  I keep playing catch up; trying to get all those little things, the paper work, etc done.  I get to bed usually by midnight unless I start reading or getting deeply involved in something and then it could be as late as 2:00 am.  I try to get up around 7:00 am, but it may get delayed until 7:30 or 8:00 or 9:00 or...  Lately I have decided that I need to get back to starting my day with God, but when I get up all of a sudden my day has started and it is 11:00 or Noon and I'm behinder than when I started.  Ever have that happen?  So I decided if I can't get started with God at my normal get up time, maybe I just better try to get up before my day starts.  Well the last several days I have been getting up at 6:00 am.  Yeah, did you know it is still dark then?  But anyway by 7:00 I have had my prayer time, my Bible reading time, and my Bible Study/Sunday School studying time done.  And you know what?  I'm getting more done, more things completed, and feeling better about it. 

But, you know what the strangest thing is?  I KNEW THAT WOULD HAPPEN.  I've known it would happen for a long time.  I knew this from experience, mine and others'.  I knew it because God told me in His Word it would happen that way.  So the big questions are:  Why didn't I do it sooner?  Why did I ever stop?  Why do you understand?  And why can't we answer these questions?  I like things simple and the simple answer is 'sin', but that doesn't really explain it does it?  The biggest consolation is in God's Word where the writer of the most books in the New Testament, the one who has written more about how to live a Christ-like life than any one else in the world, tells us he does what he doesn't want to do and doesn't do what he wants to do.

So, I guess, the storal of the morey is: when you can't seem to do something you know you should be doing, just do it anyway, but, Start Your Day With The LORD .... or it won't matter. 

Testing 1 2 testing  Guess I am in.  At this point I don't know what i'm doing, so we shall see.