From a girl studying aimlessly

So I know this isn't usually the BEST way to have devotions but as I was breaking from studying like crazy for my final, my journal flipped open in the wind to this passage:

"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore, I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize"

           1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Alright let's go!

Lord of Today

God of the ages, 

History's Maker

Planning our pathway,

 holding us fast

Shaping in mercy 

all that concerns us

Father, we praise You, 

Lord of the past

God of this morning

Gladly Your children

Worship before You

Trustingly bow

Teach us to know You

Always among us

Quietly sov'reign-

Lord of our now

God of tomorrow, 

Strong Overcomer

Princes of darkness

Own Your command

What then can harm us

We are Your people

Now and forever

Kept by Your hand

Lord of past ages

Lord of this morning

Lord of the future

Help us we pray:

Teach us to trust You

Love and obey You

Crown You each moment

Lord of today

From God of the Ages

"See to it, brothers that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. but encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. As has just been said, 'Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.'. . . Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later He spoke through David...."

 parts of Hebrews 3-4