A few weeks ago, someone was asking me about ways that God should be in their life. It's hard to remember God, when you live your life day by day. Coincidental, because someone else had just asked Deniese about the same thing. When we were riding home, she mentioned it to me and I thought it would make a good bulletin.

I suppose that one of the "occupational hazards" of writing the bulletin is that everywhere I go and everything I hear gets analyzed for its potential use. I know Wally was teasing me in his sermon last week, but it's true that you should watch what you say around me lest it end up here. Not that I am a gossip (I hope not!!!) and not that I like to make people feel uncomfortable, but I hear good stuff and I like to share it. I am quick to expand it out and apply it in some godly way.

Remembering would mean that I forgot, right? I don't have to be reminded to breathe, because it's automatic, but God's presence with me isn't quite the same. Going without air, that would be a trick! He's there all the time. The hair on our heads is also there all the time. Mine isn't so long that I can see it, and I certainly don't think about it, but I have no doubt whenever I reach up there it's going to be there. Everyone else can see it anytime they look at me, although they may not take note of it. If I do something special with it, like color it or <gasp> comb it, people may then notice it and even comment on it because it's different. God is a lot like that. If we are living our lives as we should, God will be visible in us. If we are truly set apart as Christians, people will probably even comment on it. In doing so, they will be reminding us about God.

But that isn't the end of it. I would submit that we get to a point where we think about God all the time. Today I woke up, in a sense a new birth, certainly an opportunity to pray. So that's it for now, right? Well, when I brush my teeth and take a shower, I am washing off grime. Sin is grime to the soul, and we need to keep ourselves pure. That doesn't just mean staying out of trouble; it also means washing the sins away via prayer and repentance. And what washes away dirt? Soap! Soap is an agent that gets on us and makes us "slippery" to dirt. In fact it makes the dirt fall right off. Jesus is my agent, and his blood can cause the sins to fall right off. But, like soap, it only works when you use it. Skip the soap, the dirt clings on. Skip Jesus, and sins don't go away.

When I took that shower, where did the water come from? Think about it. It came from God. Not only did He create it, not only did he give man the ability to figure out ways to bring it into my house, to heat it to a comfortable temperature, etc, but He also gave us the laws of nature which includes chemistry. And chemistry allows me to take dirty water and purify it. Which I take for granted and forget about. I concede that I am not "grateful" for all that God does for me, and has done for me, but it doesn't make it any less special of a gift.

Then I get dressed, and wouldn't you know it. God is there in my mind again! Am I dressing modestly? Am I being prideful by adorning myself with things that yell out how rich I am? Am I dressing in a way that I am prepared for the day? The bible talks about putting on the whole armor of God. It also talks about being clothed in humility. Where did these clothes come from? Do I consider the lily of the field? Whem I put on a sweater, do I think about those who wear sheep's clothing? How about the passage "naked, and ye clothed me?" Am I thankful even for the clothes I wear?

Then perhaps I come downstairs and get that cup of coffee. Be ye warm and filled? Kind of a nudge I should do for others, maybe pour a cup of coffee for my wife? And is something on my mind bothering me? Having food and raiment, let us therewith be content. Sounds like I should calm down a bit: sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.

Live with God in my life? How can we live without him! I haven't even left the house yet and He's in everything I've done! God is like eyesight. For those of us who have it, try living just one day without it. Get out of bed, brush those teeth, take that shower, put on those clothes, pour that coffee, and never open your eyes. Living your life without God is very much like it. I'm sure your purple pants and red shirt are stylish. That water all over the bathroom floor will dry up. Coffee burns heal. The stains on your shirt from trying to drink it look very artistic, really! And everyone puts a toothbrush up their nose one in a while...

Matthew 6:22-23 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

2 Corintians 4:11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

2 Peter 2:6-10 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

1 Peter 3:21-22 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

James 2:15-18 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.