My Favorite Subject is Practical Life Skills

Daily writing prompt
What was your favorite subject in school?

Hope isn’t magic. There are many practical ways to fill your life with hope!

My favorite subject is practical life skills. I am always searching for ways to improve my mind, my heart, and my behavior and to fill my life with hope. Throughout my life I’ve read many hundreds of extremely helpful books about personal and spiritual growth. The one that has helped me the most is the Bible. It has helped (and continues to help) me to experience and surrender to the living Jesus in more and more powerful ways.

Walking Life’s Emmaus Roads

To get to know and grow
Closer to Jesus.
Begin to listen to
Christ inside of you
And do what He tells you.
Go walk along and flow
With the inner leading
Of God the Spirit.
Live at God’s tempo.
It’s time to overflow
With the hope of glory
And with holy gusto.

You need to receive
The illumination
Of revelation
Directly from God.
The enumeration
Of religious ideas
And information
Is just not enough!
You need to become
A habitation
Of the risen Jesus.
Go experience what
Christ in you can do!
(Colossians 1:27)

Jesus promised His followers inner rivers of living water. (John 7:38-39) Yet far too many of us are content to let our heart be a dusty dried-up riverbed. It’s easy to walk through life unaware of the actual presence of the risen Jesus.

I’ve left what I don’t think is right. It seems to me that both the left and the right have abandoned true humility, overlooked the real presence of the risen Jesus, and given up on His supernatural insight. Now that’s a fright!

I choose to center on Christ living in and walking with me. I seek first to keep my focus on His mercy and grace and on His call for us all to humbly repent and to “Go and sin no more.”

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About Steve Simms

I like to look and think outside the box. In college I encountered Jesus Christ and I have been passionate about trying to get to know Him better ever since. My wife and I long to see the power and passion of the first Christ-followers come to life in our time. I have written a book about our experiences in non-traditional church, called, "Beyond Church: An Invitation To Experience The Lost Word Of The Bible--Ekklesia." If you need encouragement, search for: Elephants Encouraging The Room and/or check out my Amazon author page. Thank you!
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1 Response to My Favorite Subject is Practical Life Skills

  1. sanders1954's avatar sanders1954 says:

    My grandson graduated high school in 2019, said his favorite thing about school was recess and lunch time.

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