It is funny how too often we don't realize where our focus has taken residence usually until it is too late. Tonight it was like my Bible was calling to me. After working all evening and taking time to rest today and refill my soul I realized I hadn't read in a day or two. Then with an almost instantaneous flash I realized my time had been so scarce because of my crazy and exhausting work schedule that once a week was all I was able to have time for for the last month.
It shows growth when I miss God's word because I used to be someone who didn't even realize I hadn't read for a month or two. So the fact that I haven't picked up my Bible and read for myself is progress. Jesus' word to me is like more of a love letter these days so the fact that I haven't been poured into with this love but more pouring out with my very selfish love saddens my heart.
You think you grow so much and then realize growth is a process that for the most part takes time. Time, which is a word our very impatient world has forgotten the meaning. We live in a right here, right now, narcissistic, self pleasing world. And I can at times take residence shoot I used to lease out one of the main buildings in this world.
Then one simple day I picked up my journal again, grabbed my favorite pen and started writing. Started back up that missed conversation with God. Then before I knew it picked up that thing they call a Bible, missing the most important relationship I could ever know. The one with the one person in all of eternity that sacrificed everything........ for me.
Each day we get so wrapped up in the here and now that eternity gets forgotten. We get so wrapped up in what we are doing that we lose focus, our eyes veer. Then before you know it the question of "how did I get here" leaves our lips.
I do not write to boast I simply write with the lesson I am reminded of prompted by the question I ask you now... " Where does your focus lay?"
It shows growth when I miss God's word because I used to be someone who didn't even realize I hadn't read for a month or two. So the fact that I haven't picked up my Bible and read for myself is progress. Jesus' word to me is like more of a love letter these days so the fact that I haven't been poured into with this love but more pouring out with my very selfish love saddens my heart.
You think you grow so much and then realize growth is a process that for the most part takes time. Time, which is a word our very impatient world has forgotten the meaning. We live in a right here, right now, narcissistic, self pleasing world. And I can at times take residence shoot I used to lease out one of the main buildings in this world.
Then one simple day I picked up my journal again, grabbed my favorite pen and started writing. Started back up that missed conversation with God. Then before I knew it picked up that thing they call a Bible, missing the most important relationship I could ever know. The one with the one person in all of eternity that sacrificed everything........ for me.
Each day we get so wrapped up in the here and now that eternity gets forgotten. We get so wrapped up in what we are doing that we lose focus, our eyes veer. Then before you know it the question of "how did I get here" leaves our lips.
I do not write to boast I simply write with the lesson I am reminded of prompted by the question I ask you now... " Where does your focus lay?"
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