Praise to go

I keep my eyes always on the LORD. Psalm 16:8

In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food. In 2006, the spending rose to nearly $142 billion. The popularization of the drive-thru led car manufacturers in the 1990s to install cup holders in the dashboards. As fast food drinks became larger, so did the cup holders. Automobile manufactures adapted and I know that I’ve also adapted to the on the go pace of today’s world; sometime in no so good ways. I usually end up taking my negative emotions to go, getting free refills everywhere I go.

It has become increasingly difficult sometime to stay focused on God from waking until sleep time. I’ve always known that my God is what I focus on the most; my job, my hobbies, my entertainment, my recreation, my worries, the things that upset me. So how do I keep my focus on God as I am doing everything else, and dealing with so many distractions? Mastering that would be like having “Praise to go.”

A discipline of continual praise; what would that look like in my life today? David said in Psalm 34:1, “I will extol the Lord at all times; His praise will always be on my lips.” I’ll need to turn down the negative voices outside and inside my head and turn up the praise music and change my thoughts to prayers, which should keep my thoughts focused on God and not me and my surroundings. I think I’m going to supersize my worship to go today.

Bless you brothers, live this day in peace, in His Word.