{"id":2020,"date":"2020-04-15T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2020-04-03T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T13:08:00","slug":"where-is-the-best-place-to-spend-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2020\/04\/15\/where-is-the-best-place-to-spend-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE TO SPEND THE DAY?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cBetter is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.\u201d (Psalm 84:10 NIV)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best place to spend the day is in God\u2019s presence.  Moses is one of the only people who actually met with God.  When He would come from one of his meetings with God, his face would be so radiant and glowing, people couldn\u2019t look at him (Exodus 34:29-35 NIV<\/a>).  When we spend time with God in His presence, His light will shine brightly from us to all those that can see.  God loves us, He adores us. But we\u2019re afraid of His judgement and His wrath. We\u2019re afraid to enter into His presence because of our sins.  That is why we need Jesus. Jesus took our sins upon Himself, which allows us to enter into the presence of God. The best place to spend the day is in God\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best place to spend the day is in God\u2019s presence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus is our lawyer.  He stands before us when we\u2019re in the presence of God.  Since He took our sin upon Himself, God doesn\u2019t see any of it.  All He sees is Jesus in us. His beloved Son who died for us, sinless, perfect, unblemished.  He bared our burden, knowing we couldn\u2019t. We don\u2019t have to be afraid to face God. We can stand in His courts with our heads held high, knowing He loves us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last fall,  I spent the day with one of my best friends.  We started early on a Saturday morning on our journey.  We stopped and visited family, we shopped, we had lunch. The weather was perfect, not too hot, not too cold.  The sun was shining. A wonderful girl’s day that refreshes the soul. For me, days like these are some of the best days of life.  But even our best day doesn\u2019t compare to what it is like when we spend the day in God\u2019s presence. Nothing can compare to basking in His love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each morning, when I meet Him in my quiet time, I enter into His presence for those brief moments.  As I center my thoughts on Him by reading His word, then journaling in my prayer journal, I feel His Spirit with me.  It is during these times the nudges happen. I will think of someone and something I\u2019m to do for them. I feel conviction about an offense I have incurred.  Depending on the day, I feel His strength lift me up, or His peace calm me down. I enter into His presence, and He changes me with such tender love, I can\u2019t wait to go back for more.  The best place to spend the day is in God\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question of the Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you felt God\u2019s presence in your life recently?
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Further Reading: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Joshua 11:1-12:24 NIV<\/a>, Luke 17:11-37 NIV<\/a>, Psalm 84:1-12 NIV<\/a>, Proverbs 13:5-6 NIV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cBetter is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.\u201d (Psalm 84:10 NIV) The best place to spend the day is in God\u2019s presence.  Moses is one of the only people who actually met… Continue reading WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE TO SPEND THE DAY?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}