Default Mode

Many years ago I did a group study using the book by A.W. Tozer "The Pursuit of God."  In this book he sharesof an elderly gentleman who described his thoughts this way:  "When my mind isn't distracted by the things of this earth, it naturally turns to my Father."  God was this man's default mindset.

Today is the office half-day-of-prayer.  This morning I've been praying (and accidentally dozing).  I am so easily distracted by all sorts of ridiculous thoughts.  "What will we have for dinner while family is in town?  I really need to fix that pull on the afghan.  My thighs are REALLY wide when I sit down."   My Father is not yet my default mindset, but I long for it to be so.

The daily verse on my devotional program is 1 Peter 1:18-19, “Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God. It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in. He paid with Christ's sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb. And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately—at the end of the ages—become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you. It's because of this sacrificed Messiah, whom God then raised from the dead and glorified, that you trust God, that you know you have a future in God.”

I long for this "deep consciousness of God."  Instead of my mind naturally turning to the things of this world, I desperately desire Christ to be my default mode, so that all my thoughts, words and deeds will flow from a mind and heart saturated with Him.