Some weeks are just filled to the brim. I’m sure you know that feeling where there is more “to do” than there feels there is time, where there are so many plates spinning it is hard to remember which one needs attention next.

I have long loved Ephesians 2:10: “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them” (NASB).

Earlier this week, I read this quote in a devotional called Battle Prayers: “The longer I go without your Word, the weaker my spirit becomes and the harder my heart grows. But feasting upon it, I grow stronger and more sensitive to Your Spirit.” 

We have all seen or experienced the tension that comes in the face of peer pressure. If you haven’t personally known the pressure of the school playground crowd or the college party crowd or the workplace crowd, surely you’ve at least seen Ralphie get his tongue stuck to a frozen flagpole in A Christmas Story.

Do you long to see more of God’s presence in your life? I suspect we all do. 
I heard a phrase this week that stood out to me about this. It was a line in a prayer...

"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."

Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV)