How to start each day

What is the first thing you do each morning? The author of Pilgrim's Progress said that "He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day." It is important that we go into the presence of God before we go into the presence of men.

A woman attended a concert and realized the next morning that she had lost a diamond earring the night before. She called the manager of the auditorium and asked if it had been found. He said, "If you stay on the line, I'll check." A search was made and the diamond found. When he returned to the phone, the woman had hung up. How like many of us when we pray. We do not expect anything to happen when we pray so we give up on God.

David said, "In the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee and will look up." He was saying, "I will pray and then I will wait for answers and directions." If we begin every day with God we will end up with His blessings!