Hello Bible Girls!
I hope you are still working on your walk with the Lord. There are so many things, even good things that compete for our time with God. Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to read your Bible a hundred things start going through your mind of things you could do? Things like...
...checking email
...answering the phone
...letting the dog out
...straightening a picture
...texting
...studying for a test
...taking meat out of the freezer
...checking the weather
...filing your nails
...putting lotion on your elbows
...turning on your curling iron
...turning off the curling iron
I've just listed some of the things I've thought about. If I listed all of them we'd be here all day. The battle that the devil wants to fight is for our mind. If he can get our mind off of the Lord he's got us where he wants us - too busy doing and not thinking or meditating on the Lord.
When we don't put the Lord first in our thoughts we will quickly follow our own path. Doing things our way seems right but it will never work out right. God's ways are so opposite of ours. God says "give and ye shall receive", "die and you will live", "weeping endures for the night but joy cometh in the morning". God's ways just don't make "sense" sometimes.
If we give God the first minutes of the day He makes the other minutes so much more productive and flowing. Days aren't perfect, but we know that they are ordered by the Lord since we have gone to Him first for the days instructions.
How many minutes should we give God? In truth the whole day belongs to Him, but why don't we set aside some special time that's His alone? If I were eight-years-old again, I would try to give the Lord the first eight minutes of my day. If I were ten-years-old, I would try for ten minutes. If you aren't doing this I think the Lord would be pleased with FIVE minutes!
As school begins, schedules get tighter, and lives get busier, let's keep our Lord first every day.
