The importance of spending time with my Lord
19 Dec 2009 1 Comment
So one thing I was reminded of this morning is how vitally important it is to have my quiet time. WOW. Juggling life with 2 kids and working from home is tough. Especially during the week when my husband is at work. There are a hundred things that are on my daily to do list and usually something doesn’t end up getting done. Thats just how things go. My “Quiet times” arent usually quiet. I usually try and sneak them in when Ethan is watching cartoons. Well yesterday we had a particularly busy day and I ended up not making the time like I know I should have. So lets just say today I woke up tired and really grumpy. Its amazing how something as simple as 10 minutes in the Word…even 1 chapter can make such a huge difference. Just a few minutes with my Lord can change the entire trajectory of my day and my attitude. It is something that I know I sometimes take for granted and don’t realize the importance of it until I don’t.
We all drink water in some form throughout the day. We need it to survive. I am terrible about drinking enough water. Well for the last week or so as I get about halfway thru my day if I haven’t had enough water I start to feel a little sick and the room feels like it is spinning. Totally throwing everything off. I get hot, I get grumpy, and it totally throws me out of whack. And it totally dawned on me this morning the same thing happens when I don’t get in the word and spend time with God. I get grumpy and it totally just throws my whole day off. Spiritually I am off balance. And once I get that time with God even if it is a few minutes when I can hear Mickey singing from the TV I feel so much better. I am so lucky to be able to own a bible. There are places in this world where you can go to prison for owning a bible and off the top off my head I can tell you where 4 bibles are in our house. We are so lucky to have GODS WORD written for us to be able to reference anytime we like…Reading it is like having a conversation with God.
So with this reminder this morning I recommit to myself that I cannot let a day go by without spending time with my Lord. When I do God shows me and encourages me more than I could even imagine. In my life personally, God has been calling me to step up and dig even deeper in my relationship with him. I know at Cornerstone there has been a call to step up and dig deeper too. This can be a hard challenge to step up to because the more involved God gets in your life the more he seems to shake things up and we arent always comfortable when God shakes things up. Sometimes he asks us to do things we don’t feel like doing, or sometimes he asks us to stop doing things we want to do. He doesn’t do this because he wants us to make us busier or deny us the things that make us happy. He wants to give us MORE happiness, MORE blessing, and MORE joy. I have a pretty happy life but who doesn’t want MORE happiness, blessings, and joy?! I read an incredible verse in Colossians this morning that I just loved.
“And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught and you will overflow with thankfulness.” Colossians 2:6-7
So as I’m listening to my ipod this song I think best describes how I am feeling today “My heart and my soul, I give you control, consume me from the inside out. Let justice and praise, become my embrace, to love you from the inside out…….and the cry of my heart is to bring you praise from the inside out oh my soul cries out!!”
Dec 19, 2009 @ 20:44:42
A little all over the place i know but I just kind of typed it as I thought it.