In our world today, everything revolves around schedule. We have time set aside for school, eating, sleeping, cleaning, working, ect. We even seem to have the time to spend with our friends but, we often tend to forget to spend time with someone even more significant….Our Heavenly Father!
Here is something written by Greg Hinnant that I thought was really good:
“Truly, there would have been no going forth to work the works of Jesus if the apostles had refused to spend time with Him. Though Jesus called them “that He might send them forth to preach, and to have authority to heal sicknesses, and to cast out demons” (3:14,15), they neither received power nor began preaching on the day Jesus appointed them. In fact, instead of going out, they went in. That is, they “went into an house” (3:19), where they began discharging their sacred duty to spend quality time with Jesus–pondering His Word, asking Him questions, soaking in His Spirit, observing His utter dependence on His Father, learning His ways, wondering at His power, and marveling at His compassion.”
In order for us as Christians to minister to others, we must first spend the time getting to know the One that we are going to be sharing with others!
I highly encourage you step back and look at your priorities and see where spending time with God fits in there and then MAKE the time every day to spend time with God and to get to know Him better!
I agree completely with you, Sharonna! While we’re here at school, it can be very hard to juggle all the things we have to do. We tend to put our schoolwork ahead of God. This should not be the case. We should always have time for God. He made us and He can take us out of this world just as fast as we can blink an eye. Our natural instinct should always be to have time for Him.
By: Kimberlee on October 10, 2008
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