“FAMILIAR”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 744

July 15, 2025

The word that is on my mind this morning is familiar!

Most of us like at least some familiar things in our lives and some of us want the familiar the majority of the time.

We may like adventure periodically, but the familiar is where we want to dwell!

One of the definitions in Websters dictionary for familiar is, “Being free and easy”!

As I told you last week, we are not in our house right now because it is being repaired from storm damage and I Praise God they are almost through! It took them a long time to start but they have worked like crazy since starting!

A week ago, when we were first in the place where we are staying, everything was different! Things could not be placed in the most convenient ways.

Shower and even water pressure was different! It took longer to get dressed, etc. than at our house where we had things arranged a certain way and they and the process of doing everything was FAMILIAR!

The close quarters make even Prayer and Bible reading different than where I have what I need for my time in the word around me!

What I have noticed is that as the week went on things became more FAMILIAR!

Each day it seems a little easier to do the things needed. The items needed in the bathroom are arranged in a usable way and just the routine of getting dressed and everything else is quicker and easier because it is convenient!

I began to think about how we get familiar with things that are not honoring God or making us a better person in the same way. The unfamiliar becomes normal the more we do it.

Jesus tells us in His word to not conform to this world. In other words, do not become familiar in this world’s ways and live in the way the systems of this world dictate!

To change our thinking and our actions may be unfamiliar at first but as we continue to make decisions that Glorify God our creator, they will become as familiar as our next breath!

The more we pray and commit everything to the one who is able to do all things, it just becomes the cornerstone of our lives!

The more we are reading the Bible and letting the Bible read us, it takes root in our hearts and becomes as familiar as our next words!

The more we make sure we are in Church on Sunday with an open heart ready to receive strength and power from our Heavenly Father and fellowship with others, we will not miss if possible and find strength for this journey of life!

When we walk with others in mind and let a kind spirit flow through all we do, that just becomes who we are! Love and kindness begin to flow automatically from us!

I encourage you today to examine those things that are familiar to you and ask God to help you change the familiar things in your life that do not honor Him!

Change is not easy, it is easier to continue in the familiar things and not examine how we are living each day or why we do things.

We only have one life to live, let us live it for Jesus and allow Him to lead us into the unfamiliar territory of His plan for us!

Comfortable! Familiar! Free and Easy!

We all prefer that! The religious leaders of Jesus Day did not want to change and receive the Messiah, Jesus Christ, and the better way He offered! They were comfortable in their familiar ways and rules!

May we get out of the familiar and walk into the awesome plan our Creator God has for us!

What is deep in your heart to do but is out of the familiar? Blessings await when we say, “Yes I will”!

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Father, in Jesus’ name I ask you to guide each of us as we examine our lives. Show us the familiar things that are not part of your plan for us. Give each of us courage to take your hand and step out of the familiarity into the Blessings and Joy that awaits obedience to you and your word! Fill us full of YES! Amen!

Love, MeMaw!