I was spending time out on the deck with this morning’s reading from the Divine Hours  devotional series, and it hit me: I need to move.

No, I’m not talking here about changing my geography. This was the repeating scripture from this morning’s reading:

“Purge me from my sin, and I shall be pure; wash me, and I shall be clean indeed”. (Psalm 51:8)

This verse appears somewhat regularly in the Divine Hours devotional readings. But today I noticed something for the first time.

The verse doesn’t say, “Purge my sin from me”. It’s not saying, “God, magically fix me while I remain here in the same habits, the same patterns of thought and behavior”.

It says “Purge me from my sin”. I need to move. I need to remove myself from the rituals and habits that send me down a path of thought and behavior that leads me away from what God would have for me. Away from patterns that prompt me to wrestle back control from God. I need to establish new rituals and patterns that help me say “no” to the Kingdom of Me, to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit, and to truly believe and trust that “God’s got this”.

So I’m asking God to help me establish those new patterns – to help me figure out what that looks like for me.

It’s time to move.