When I first read this, I immediately thought that I was already doing this and this should be easy. Man was I wrong!! This really made me focus on am I doing things for God or for someone else? Priscilla Shirer writes this book and she really makes you think. Here is one paragraph that I have reread several times:
I can say that I am faithfully His when things are going well. Even then, I still have my moments. The biggest part of this is being rooted in His word. Many times people say that they don't read the Bible because they don't understand it (I know this because I still use that excuse every once and a while). With all the new translations out there, I promise there is a version you can understand. The Message version is a great place to start. Priscilla says that His Word is "not just to read. It's to absorb. To bathe in. To live by". Wow!!! I want that! Doesn't that sound amazing??"Hopefully you're a person of faith. But heaven is calling you to be a person of faithfulness as well. When you're at your job. When you're hanging out with friends. When you're struggling financially. When you're faced with a tough decision. When you're doing your daily life and wish you were doing somebody else's. By resolving to be faithfully His, you are deciding to allow everything you believe about God and His Word to consistently guide your feet, your hands, your mind, your heart - despite anything and everything that may poitn to the contrary" (pg. 77).
It reminds me of a picture that was going around Facebook sometime last year. I did some searching and found it. It describes how God's Word is supposed to be. It embraces us. In those hard times, His word is there holding us up. In the good times, His word is hugging us and rejoicing with us.
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