Many people complain about not having time in their busy schedule to spend time with God. That is the sign of someone who is way too busy. There are many ways we can incorporate prayer into our daily agenda. One idea is to Prayer Walk. This accomplishes several things at once…exercise, prayer for your neighborhood, a time to praise God for the nature all around you, and a time to share your concerns with God and to listen to His advice. Another idea is to stop watching television, which robs us of so many hours in our day. We can also put worship music on while we do household chores and worship right along with the singers.
Those who spend time with God are closer to living a spiritual life than the person who spent hours in Bible College. To do both is even better! Once we come to Christ, the Holy Spirit teaches us all things as we read the Word, listen to sermons and fellowship with other Christians. The longer we live the Christian life, the more tempted we are to think we have arrived. We get complacent and cold hearted toward spiritual things. We grow bored with reading God’s Word and going to church services.
If Satan cannot take you
back into a life of sin, the second best weapon he has is to deceive you into
apathy in your Christian walk. The Bible tells us that in the last days, the
hearts of many will grow cold (Matthew 24:12).
There will be a great falling away of people who live as cultural Christians
and who do not have a fervent, personal relationship with Christ by His Spirit (Revelation
12:14; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4).
In America we have unlimited
access to spiritual tools and events. Yet, we make every excuse to miss
fellowshipping with other Believers and learning from God’s Word. Our worship
turns mechanical and we grow colder by the day. We honor God with our lips, but
our hearts are far from Him (Isaiah 29:13).
An intimate relationship
with the God of the universe allows us to love and be loved, to walk in victory
through the trials of life and to be led by the Spirit of God moment of moment
throughout the day (Romans 8:14). When
we commit all of our body, spirit and soul – our mind, will and emotions - to
Him, we receive blessings from Him in return. His mercies are new every morning
(Lamentations
3:23), and just waiting for us to enjoy
them.
If our spirituality is not
infiltrating every compartment of our life, we are not allowing Jesus to live
as our Lord. The goal is for us to walk in the spirit at work, home, school,
church, the shopping center and on the roadways. The closer we walk with Him
the easier it is to trust Him in the hard times (Psalm 56:3; Joshua 1:9). Our uncompromising habitual service to God (Psalm 50:9-10) is more
important to Him than occasional grand gestures. He meets us the moment we long
for His presence (Jeremiah 29:13), and
gives us both the desire and the power to accomplish His will in our life (Philippians
2:12-13).
Prayer:
Father God, You dearly love
all of Your children. You shower us with patience and provide everything we
need to live a Godly life. Help us not to choose Satan’s lies, but to choose
repentance instead (2 Peter 3:9). You
sent Your Son, Jesus Christ, to die in our place and to appease Your wrath over
our sin. You provide Your Holy Spirit to lead us into Your truth and to strengthen
us through the trials of life. Help us to faithfully follow the leading of Your
Spirit and to do Your works until Jesus returns to the earth.
Thought for the Day:
God is not an emergency
technician that we only call in times of trouble. He is our Lord and Savior and
deserves our committed life of devoted worship to Him.
