In the words of Jillian Potter

Love is not complacency

I promise I'll keep this one short cuz the last one was quite lengthy.

I feel that I, and prolly anybody who reads this, let God down in this respect. We love God. There is no denying that. But if we love him why do persist on staying stagnant in our relationships with Him.

I realize that we are all guilty, I include myself in this, of putting other things before God. I myself am a college student who leads ministry and works. On top of that I have homework and need time to spend with my friends and family. My excuse for not finding time to spend with God somedays is that I am just to busy with other things. Matthew 6:25-33 talks about worrying about these things.

Do Not Worry

25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

Why worry about earthly things? This passage is still incredibly prevalent today almost 2000 years after befing written. Why worry about what you wear? Does God care what you wear. If I had to guess I would say I highly doubt it. If this is the case why do we waste time on something so trivial and meaningless? Not only clothes but many things in our lives are just earthyl possessions that do nothing but deter us from delving deeper into our relationship with Christ. Christ should be the center of our lives and by prioritizing other things above Him is not putting Him first in your life is it?

Again, I am incredibly guilty of this myself. On a daily basis I put my own selfish wants and needs over my relationship with Christ. I am getting better at it but I still struggle alot. My question to you is why waste time checking facebook countless times? Why waste time playing video games hours a day? Why waste time searching for new music on iTunes? What is all this doing for you in your relationship with Christ? At the most all this stuff is doing is stopping you from spending meaningful time with the Lord.

Instead of spending these hours doing meaningless things why not put them to use? You have all this time to spend on doing anything you want. Why not spend it with the Lord? Are video games, music, and facebook to important to put on hold to spend some good quality time in the Word? Im not saying spend all your freetime in the Word, God wants you to to rest and have fun. Instead i'm just asking you to think about whats inportant in life and instead of wasting time everyday why not spend sometime with god and see what He is trying to teach you that day.