What is this about?

So I have decided to start a new journey in my life. During the last few months, I have noticed that it has become difficult to get alone with the Lord. As life seems to be increasingly busier, discipline becomes more of a challenge. I created this blog to be a challenge mostly more for me, but for you as well. I have seen the necessity in my life to have a consistent daily time alone, in the Word, seeking the face of God. When this happens, the focus of my day tends to be on Christ and others. When it doesn't, it sets my day up to be focused on myself. So my hope and aim in this blog is that I would share something that God spoke to me during my time in the Word. But I also hope this can be for you as well, that it would inspire you dig deeper into Christ, whatever way you feel He is asking you.

I want to get away from calling our time in the Word "quiet time", "bible time", or "devotional time". I would rather avoid using the word time at all. I feel like time denotes something we must do, as if it is a task to check off a list of other tasks. Encountering Christ through the living Word, is no task. Experiencing Him should be like wanting to see a friend. It should come naturally. I think every American has grown up either consciously, or sub-consciously, to believe that the measure of our spirituality is indicated by some sort of spiritual check list. If we have had our "devotional time", whether that is a five minute bible and breakfast on the go, or a fifteen minute glancing at a devotional book, we feel like we are pretty good and we are seeking God. What if God asked us to stop what we were doing, turn from our evil ways, put on sack cloth, repent, and seek His face until He tells us to go else where. My guess is most of us Americans would not obey Him. We would say, "But Lord, I spend time reading from J.I Packer's devotional books, isn't that good enough?". I really don't think the Lord want's a mere fifteen minutes of our day. He wants our lives.

I do not mean to create guilt ridden obedience. That is not my intention, nor do I think that is a biblical response. This is my conviction and I have become increasingly aware of my need for Him, and to hear from Him through His Word. I hope and pray that you are motivated to act, by His spirit, from a changed heart. My first post will be tomorrow, Dec 1.

Ephesians 3:13-21



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