Lots goes on but is any of it really important in the longterm scheme of things. All that really matters is God's unending love for us and Jesus' unending sacrifice for us. My focus is not to be on my day to day yada yada life. My focus is to listen to what it is God wants me to do, in every moment. I'd like to say that I'm a laser beam of focus for Him, but that would be a whopper even I would have a hard time keeping a straight face saying.
Donna recently wrote that to read the bible and pray, the ever present mantra of Christianity was something she (we) should be doing. Like breathing or blinking, as in, how can you stop doing it? I always find time to eat, sleep, watch shows on the computer (I spend way too much time on the computer truth be told), so why not read the bible, why not spend quiet time before my Creator?
Because it takes no time to be brain dead, looking at images on a electronic screen, reading about the lives of those around me living their lives. Being quiet before God, waiting for Him to speak to me, that would take dedication. But isn't that what we are called to do, dedicate our lives to Him? Why is it so difficult to do this? Why do I let so many other things distract me instead of allowing myself to be immersed in Him.
I wish I knew. So I go back to working hard at shutting out the other things of this world that pull me away from Him and attempt yet again to make Him my first priority, not my last. He gets in my face all the time and I don't even recognize it when He does because I'm so wrapped up in my life to clearly see Him.
God, please help me to be sensitive to You and Your wants and desires. It isn't that you don't make them plain, I'm just so used to shutting them out that I can't see beyond my own nose. Bring my focus out of me and onto You. You are the only one worthy of it, nothing and no one else.
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