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Monday Devotion

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.  For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

Matthew 7:1-2

In college I had a pretty strict view about a “quiet time.”  I believed you were supposed to do certain things, and certain times of the day were better than others to do them in.

Then I started dating Lisa.  Here was a woman who had a dynamic relationship with God but who rarely had a quiet time first thing in the morning.  For starters, Lisa usually got out of bed just in time to make her first class.  Not until later in the day would she go up on the roof of our dorm to lie in the sun during the afternoon.  She brought her Bible along and called it a quiet time.

“At least be honest,” I kidded her.  “I mean, who goes up on the roof after lunch to pray and lay in the sun and calls that a quiet time?”

Then one day there was a loud knock on my dorm room door.  I opened it up, Lisa marched in, and threw open my Bible to Acts 10:9: “About noon the following day….Peter went up on the roof to pray.”

Score one for Lisa.