The Important Things in Life :)

 

 

God has been doing some super and amazing things in my life recently. Well, He always does, we know that….but recently what He has been telling me and showing me I have tried my best to heed. I am making an attempt to really listen and learn and apply what He is showing me. I am taking a Spiritual Formation class right now at Liberty and I am loving it! I took Spiritual Formation at Mt. Olive but I was sooooo not ready for it then. Don’t get me wrong, I learned a lot even then…but not like now.

It still amazes me that I graduated with a degree in Religion and was not even saved. I actually started Seminary AND planned and to go on a mission trip overseas because I was even saved (I had very good intentions but you know what they say about good intentions…). I guess Satan knew what was going to happen in those days because the attacks started and boy oh boy was it ever hard. I mean…not just hard, but impossible. Have any of you tried to fight the evil one without Jesus? Yea….that was me. Trying to do all ‘I’ could do! HA! I suggest NEVER doing that. If you know don’t God and you haven’t been building that relationship that your Lord and Savior that He so badly wants to have with you, please take a moment now to think about why and what you need to do. It is the most important thing in this life!

Well, on to what God has been showing me more recently. As I started this Spiritual Formation class I have been convicted about my time with God. And here it is…my confession…I have had NO time with God. Yes, I work in the church. I help people. I work with the children on Sundays and Wednesday. I work at the soup kitchen. I randomly pray here and there for those people in my life who are hurting. But is any of that really time with God? The answer I got when I asked that question was a big ol’ no! Wow!

So, what am I doing about this….I am taking time with my Lord every single day! I am getting up earlier to come to Him in prayer and to study His word. Do I miss that sleep? Well, when that alarm goes off YES! But once I get to talking to my Father and listening to what He has for me all thought of that lost sleep is gone. Spending time is with God is more important than sleep. Do you hear what I am saying? I mean, answer this question: Is God more important than anything else in this life? I am sure many of you would say yes BUT then in the next thought you probably put sleep above Him…and eating above Him…and your job above Him….and your family above Him. I know we don’t do it on purpose but we DO it EVERYDAY! You make time in your life for what you really and truly want to do….it is time to make time in life for the One that provides for us all we need to be doing the very things we love. If it were not for Him we could do nothing.

Get up 15 minutes earlier to give that time in prayer to God.

Spend your lunch reading His Word instead of gossiping with friends.

Spend your evenings in prayer or in Bible study instead of staring at the TV screen.

Plan time for family devotions.

Read a chapter in the Bible a day instead of spending that time on social media.

Take a look at your life and decide what is more important….yourself or God.

Be blessed!