What's on your wall?

When I attended Bible College, I put scriptures on my bathroom wall. I hung signs with various scriptures- some about healing, some about prosperity, some about peace/comfort. I found things that would encourage me daily and posted them on the wall.

After some time- not sure how long...weeks, maybe a few months- I was in need of some scripture.

 Tim said to me, 

"Don't you have that on your bathroom wall?"   

Sure enough, I did!!  I said,

 "Wow, yes I do. But after all this time, the signs just became part of the wall!" 

How did I let that happen? The scriptures were meant to encourage me every time I went to the bathroom- which is, of course, several times a day! BUT, instead, I let them fade into the wall.

How often do we KNOW what we need to know to get through our daily lives, but we let our knowledge slip into the background? How often do we forget the basics to help us trudge through? 

For example- for healing... I KNOW that Christ took my sickness and pain to the cross. 1 Peter 2:24 says that "By His stripes we WERE healed." So ... I KNOW that He healed me 2000 years ago. Anything I face today was covered by His death 2000 years ago. But how often do I sit here feeling sick and miserable and think, "I just want to feel better?" Healing is mine, but so often I consult "Uncle Google" before I consult The Word or pray. 

Or for example- my work ethic... When I feel like my work is all for naught. All that I do- both what is expected AND the over-and-above stuff- sometimes seems like it's unnoticed and unappreciated.  I KNOW that I am working as unto the Lord, not to man, but in the middle of it all, my instinct is to be frustrated with my vain attempts to work hard.  Colossians 3:23 says, "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as to the Lord and not unto man."

I love it when God gives me a spiritual spanking. When I am sitting here researching ways to work through something... while I look up topic after topic on Google... God's still, small voice whispers in my ear. He reminds me of what I KNOW. When I am ill and miserable and researching what could possibly be wrong- because the scriptures have faded into the wallpaper- God reminds me (ever-so-gently) that I haven't even asked HIM for the truth of the matter. The TRUTH is that I WAS healed ... therefore, I am healed and whole. 

Sometimes we spend too much time consulting book answers and forget that the only BOOK that matters is The Word! 

So, what's on your wall? Has the knowledge you've been given faded into the background? Keep His Word ever-ready, ever-accessible, ever-present in your mind so you don't have to get that spiritual spanking from the Father! The Heavenly spanking is quite humbling... maybe that's exactly what I needed!

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