Here today and gone tomorrow.
It’s really amazing how fast time can fly.
This next month is going to fly by even more.
Often the first thing that goes away is our time with God.
Even as a minister this is a struggle.
Every day I spend time in devotion, prayer and personal study on scripture. Sometimes I do great and sometimes I fall short.
When we get busy often the first thing that falls out is our time with God.
While I still spend time with God every day in prayer, one of the things I cut back is my time with God.
This might sound a little selfish, but what I put out as notes/blogs/devotions or whatever you call the things I write, I write for me.
It’s time when I spend time writing what God has taught me in the Bible. Not everything I write about, I put online, I would say about 75 percent of the time I open it up and put it online.
If you are a person who reads this, I have fallen short lately.
In between, writing my thesis paper, doing ministry, dealing with a sick family, video games, Facebook, sin and every other distraction. I have cut out my devotion time.
I still spend time in prayer and talking to God daily, but I do not spend time writing what God teaches me in the Bible.
Fail.
This month could easily be another month where I could justify to myself reasons for not writing what God teaches me in the Bible. I have a busy month.
Instead, my goal is to do devotion every single day for the rest of the month.
Usually I take weekends off (Honestly, you can’t take days off from your faith) and that will change.
I am going to be busy, but I am making a commitment before you today that I am going to spend more time in the Word (Bible) then I ever had before for personal study.
I am falling short on the person, husband, father and servant of God I am supposed to be.
Today I change this.
What I am asking from you today is accountability. Usually I do my devotions in the morning, if you do not see my devotion/note/blog up, I want you to mention that to me.
One of the ways I plan on getting closer to God is by giving up on Facebook for a month. I am too busy and honestly Facebook while a great ministry tool and a chance to connect with people, is sucking the life out of me.
I am still working on the details with this, but will most likely start tomorrow.
I have been struggling the past month with my relationship with God.
It hasn’t been bad, but it hasn’t been great.
Today is going to start a change in my life.
I have felt like the Magic Man, one day you see me, one day you don’t.
That is not what a relationship is supposed to be like with our friends, family and other loved ones, yet this is often what we do with God.
It’s time I realize the errors of my ways and move on.
Today I was reading Luke 19:11-27.
It was a parable about a king who gave 10 servant three months’ salary and told them to do something with it.
Two reported the good they did and got the equivalent of what they earned in cities they would oversee.
One didn’t and was punished because he said this in verse 20-21…
“Sir, here is your mina: I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth. I was afraid of you , because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.”
Mina was the money that was equivalent to three months’ salary.
The king would not hear his sob story and punished the man for not doing anything that he blessed him with.
God blesses us with so much and we consistently give him the leftovers.
I am guilty of this just like the man in the story.
We can change and today I am looking forward to getting back on page with God.
Have a great day.
