"She riseth also....

...while it is yet night." Proverbs 31:15

One of my favorite sets of scripture is in Proverbs 31. Start at verse 10 and read through verse 31. I read this every day at some point as this is the woman that I desire to be. I feel like I'm trucking along in this direction, slowly but surely except for verse 15.

Imagine this: a weekday morning at my house- the alarm goes off at 6:45am for Josh to get up for work. I tell him nicely a couple times to get up, then I get up and turn on the water in the shower for it to heat up. I nestle back into bed next to baby Jack and close my eyes. Aaaaaah......so nice. As soon as Josh gets up and gets in the shower I have to go into the kitchen to prepare his lunch, fill his waterbottle, and if I've just washed his work shirts, then iron. All the time I am doing this I am moving at the pace of a snail. My scripture reading and prayer get done 99.9% of the time after I'm finished doing all this and after the girls are awake. My shower ALWAYS gets taken after I do this unless I have to work prenatal appointments that day. It sounds like a lot gets done before 8am at my house- but it really doesn't.

If I say I'm going to get up before 6:30am Josh just laughs. I've said this SO many times but I can't seem to drag myself out of bed. I desire it, but I'm not willing to sacrifice for it. There's something about my house at 6:00am that I LOVE. I'm trying, I really am.....

Today I got online and read this quote that spurred me thinking about early rising again:

E.M. Bounds, a pastor who was born in 1835 wrote the following:

"A desire for God which cannot break the chains of sleep is a weak thing and will do but little good for God after it has indulged itself fully. The desire for God that keeps so far behind the devil and the world at the beginning of the day will never catch up.It is not simply the getting up that puts men to the front and makes them captain generals in God's hosts, but it is the ardent desire which stirs and breaks all self-indulgent chains. But the getting up gives vent, increase, and strength to the desire. If they had lain in bed and indulged themselves, the desire would have been quenched. The desire aroused them and put them on the stretch for God, and this heeding and acting on the call gave their faith its grasp on God and gave to their hearts the sweetest and fullest revelation of God..."

I love this! This man has an incredible gift with words.........

Ok, so long story short, the goal for this week is 6:00am. Let's see if I can do it.