How do you begin each day each? If you are like me, you get out of bed just in time – and not a moment sooner. Oh sure, you planned to wake up at 5:30 and work out, catch Sports Center, have a quiet time, eat breakfast, and arrive early to work, but sometimes it just doesn’t happen that way. My mornings are filled only with good intentions (I really was planning on waking up early, but yesterday was a rough day…I’ll get up early tomorrow) and the sound of my alarm clock every nine minutes.

I am not a morning person – and my Christian walk suffers because of this fact. It is more likely that I stay up until 5:00 AM than wake up at 5:00 AM. Quiet times spent in prayer and studying God’s word occur in the evening, afternoon at the earliest. At that point, most of my day has already passed.

MY MISSION: To become a morning person. Not because it drives my wife nuts that I press the snooze button 15 times every day (though this would certainly be a noble cause in itself). Not because I would be more productive. Not because breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Rather, because I am convinced that the Lord would be more glorified by my life if I were a morning person.

And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. Mark 1:35 (ESV)

I’ll let you know how it goes. Who knows…if I’m successful, perhaps I’ll find time to post here on a REGULAR basis!

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