Thoughts from Oswald Chambers for Today + A Movie Review

I sort of started something new this year, and as of January 6th, it's stuck. Every morning, with my breakfast, I'm taking an extra couple of minutes to read Oswald Chambers in his book "My Utmost for His Highest," as he has very short but impactful daily readings. It's a famous book that perhaps you have already read through. Anyway, I really liked a portion of what he had to say today, based on the Bible verse Genesis 12:8.

We have to pitch our tents where we shall always have quiet times with God, however noisy our times with the world may be. There are not three stages in spiritual life -- worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs; we jump from worship to waiting, and from waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord. He was unhasting and unresting. It is a discipline, we cannot get into it all at once.

Good stuff, probably written a little less than a hundred years ago, when the world wasn't nearly as busy as it is today, which is why, all the more, we should take this warning to heart.

On a totally separate note, I went to watch a movie on the big screen last night, which is rare, considering the rapidly declining quality of movies the last few years as well as the rapid increase of the prices. I really thought that We Are Marshall was a very good movie. I have linked a very conservative review for any that may be interested in taking a family to watch. When I was a senior in high school and a captain of the football team, we lost a young sophomore running back to a totally unexpected death before the season started officially but while we were bonding as a team in preseason three-a-day practices. It was really rough, and I couldn't help but think of that when watching this movie. The PG rating was a little loose considering the 30 or so profanities, but all in all a good movie, though certainly a tear-jerker. Anyway, it goes down as the first recommended movie from The Heavy-Laden.