Today’s 333 Devotional: “God Centered Mindfulness”

We are all self-centered. Everything revolves around us and our needs. But if we want to be successful in this life, we must stop living a life geared towards self-fulfillment. We’re told that we need to look within to have a full life, but such a journey ends up in frustration, because we find nothing when we do.

I believe people are tired to living according to the way media stars, politicians, and the elite tell us, and by the standards they set.

And so, we need to disengage with the world for at least 10 minutes a day, hopefully longer, and start asking, “How can we live a fulfilled life with peace and purpose?” “How can we live right in a world that has gone so wrong?” “How can I get directions for life, and my life seems so directionless?”

To answer these questions, we to look to God, taking ourselves and others out of the equation, because life and God are so much bigger than our thoughts and feelings.

We are told in Isaiah 55:6-9, “Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near … ‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ says the Lord. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.’”

We are not just physical beings with a body and a soul (feelings and emotions), but we are also spiritual beings. Therefore, without directions from the Creator of this world, we’ll never know our purpose and find peace.

And God’s promise is that He will answer our inquires, and He does so by pointing out that He knows us and has a plan and a purpose. The Lord said, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11)