Wake Up, Girl!

Reading today's devotion kinda gives me a 'wake up call'.....again!
Along and along in life I have to relearn some things. This is one of them....
Exact wording in the devotion for May 22, 2008.
"I am fulfilled not just in doing good deeds;
I am fulfilled by being the good of God expressed every day."
.......Seems it is easier sometime in 'doing rather than being'......
It is in the 'being' that the doing is expressed rightly and with pure motives!
......As it is in training children rightly the saying, "Show me with your life....not just your words"
and it is thus with our relationship with God and how much we love Him.
Our day by day walk with Him will reveal to others more about Him....then we can ever tell them in words!
Scares me to death, doesn't it you?
As I have been reading in the Old Testament, God spoke to His wayward children of Israel time and time again. Warnings and words failed to bring correction and as with any 'child' He had to institute discipline....then when that failed to turn them around.....judgment had to 'bring them to their senses'. Often in the most severe times of bondage, waywardness etc. God would look down on these His children, and declare....."It is 'My Honor' that is at stake here in your lives! The heathen will look and say, 'Oh, how they behave while serving their One true God!'"
Isn't this also, true in so many 'Christians' today....and are we not, too, guilty at times of being a poor example or reflection of the God we serve?
I know I am guilty as I fall in my 'humanness' and walk according to what seems right unto me but may not be 'Biblical' correct or in line for His best will for me...
It is then that I realize....whoa, something is amiss here.
I've lost my peace, my joy is being threatened.....God and I better have a heart to heart talk so that I can 'think straight' again.
Doesn't take long for Him to 'love me back in shape' and I arise with singing in my soul, a smile on my face and feel that 'all is right with life'...
Yes, it is true that....God enjoys His people, His children as I do mine and I am so blessed that He is continuously patient with me.
I know this for a fact ....this fact is called....experience!