Are you taking time each day to read your Bible? Are you making time each day to pray? Even if you do not read our blog every day, I sincerely hope that each one of you are making and taking time to spend with God.
...and I want you to realize that I have to do the same thing. Life doesn't slow down once you graduate college, once you have a husband, or once you have your own place to live. Oh, no. I learned a long time ago that I can't wait around for time to be on my side. I have to order time to be on my side like I would order a hired servant. Does time dictate to you what you'll do each moment, or do you take control of your time and tell your time what you're going to do with it?
We all have days where we waste time...maybe even weeks. I know I've had times like that in my life, and even still I find myself wasting time when I could be doing something prosperous. But, wasting time should not be a regular thing for the child of God.
If you have trouble making sure you spend time with the LORD each day, here are a few helps to establish in your life, one at a time. These things would help keep you on track:
- Give your cell phone to your parents when you go to bed and don't take it back until you have spent time with God the next morning. (And if your cell phone is your alarm, I can assure you that your parents will gladly buy you an alarm clock if you tell them what you're doing!)
- Commit to stay off of social media - texting, Instagram, SnapChat, Facebook, Kik, etc - until you have spent real time with God each day.
- Do not read anything each day until you have read your Bible.
- Our church's weekly prayer list is in 7 sections. Pray for one section each day of the week.
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Bible Reading: Proverbs 18, Ephesians 2
I love the 2nd point! I had a friend one time who had a policy in her home: "No Food, no food." What she meant was that there would be no breakfast for her children until they had their spiritual food. That worked well for her. Some of us are not breakfast people anyway, so I'm not sure that would work for everyone. But, just about everyone is involved in some sort of social media, so to commit to abstain from that until we have met with the Heavenly Father is a wonderful step in the right direction.
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