Just Me and God
I realized something today as I was wracking my brain trying to figure out a blog post topic. It seems that it’s difficult to write about God when you’re not talking to Him a lot. The weeks when I get my daily time with Him, it’s much easier to share about the lessons I am learning. Imagine that.
Look, like many of you, I’m busy. I have two jobs. I’m married. I even write freelance articles in my (lack of) spare time. It’s very easy to not have time with my Father. “I need my sleep,” or “I just need to relax a little right now,” or “I haven’t checked ESPN in the past 5 minutes” are popular thoughts that come into my head as I’m getting ready to start praying or opening up the Bible.
I don’t know why it’s so easy to put my time with God on the back burner. When I do spend time with Him, it’s sometimes dramatic, sometimes calm, sometimes joyous, but always good. It’s a refreshing step out of our raucous world and into the larger reality that exists beyond our everyday existence (“coming in out of the wind,” as C.S. Lewis calls it in Mere Christianity). Why would you not want to sit with the Creator of the universe, feel His peace, and just know that He is God (Ps. 46:10), even if it’s for a few minutes?
What are the things that distract you from your time with Him, and what do you do to overcome these things? I would love to hear your thoughts.
Look, like many of you, I’m busy. I have two jobs. I’m married. I even write freelance articles in my (lack of) spare time. It’s very easy to not have time with my Father. “I need my sleep,” or “I just need to relax a little right now,” or “I haven’t checked ESPN in the past 5 minutes” are popular thoughts that come into my head as I’m getting ready to start praying or opening up the Bible.
I don’t know why it’s so easy to put my time with God on the back burner. When I do spend time with Him, it’s sometimes dramatic, sometimes calm, sometimes joyous, but always good. It’s a refreshing step out of our raucous world and into the larger reality that exists beyond our everyday existence (“coming in out of the wind,” as C.S. Lewis calls it in Mere Christianity). Why would you not want to sit with the Creator of the universe, feel His peace, and just know that He is God (Ps. 46:10), even if it’s for a few minutes?
What are the things that distract you from your time with Him, and what do you do to overcome these things? I would love to hear your thoughts.
posted by Editor at 7:00 PM
3 Comments:
I write a devotional that I put up on Blogger and have an email mailing list that subscribes (very small but it is there).
Knowing that people are going to read it every day gives me the motivation to get the devotional done each day. And since I have to spend time in the Word to write it, then it keeps me fresh.
There have been a few times I have been a day late, or it gets done at 11:55PM, but I have not missed a day in over 1 1/2 years.
Hope that helps as an idea.
Sometimes, I just need to remember how good God was to me. Then, I will naturally hold off other unimportant things.
It is very easy to put prayer time on the back burner. For me it's work schedule that fights for my time.I have to remind myself from time to time that I need to make time.Prayer recharges my soul. God Bless!
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