Recently, a friend texted me, “How was your day?”

And I found myself listing all the things. All the details of the day. I did this, then went here, then had this conversation, then took care of that. But as I was typing, I realized—maybe that wasn’t what she was asking me.

I was telling her what I had done. But how was my day?

That made me pause. I had been moving from this to this to this, and now I was replaying it all for her. I could remember the events, the conversations, the things I had handled. But had I stopped to consider God in the midst of any of it?

Have you ever looked at a timeline?

I have been spending time in Genesis lately, and as I read His Word, God is showing me who He is and what He is doing. In Noah's time, there were a ton of people on earth. Not only that, but they lived a long time- their milestone birthdays were celebrated in centuries instead of decades.

Reading the account of the flood this week has given me a new awe and wonder for God.

We are broken people living in a broken world. And no matter how much we wish it weren't so, the evidence of our brokenness keeps showing up—over and over again. Pride, selfishness, impatience, and unkindness pile up like dust. A wandering heart and a desire to be seen, right, and in control.

We wipe it away by confessing it, repenting of it—and then, somehow, there it is again. The Red dust is real, but it is not permanent.

The red dust.

The phrase, “do not be deceived” appears a few times in the Scripture. How can we avoid being deceived if deception, by its very nature, doesn't feel like deception? If I believe something that's false, it seems true to me at the time.

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