Is God on your To-Do list?

It's easy to let life spin by around you and forget why your truly living. It's easy to get so caught in tasks and goals that you neglect what you know is really important. It's easy to read books and listen to sermons about God but be too busy when it comes to investing your time in him directly.

Lately I have been asking God to show me what is means to fall in love with him again. I have been a Christian for a long time and heard many of the bible verses and stories of God over and over. I'm also studying at bible college right now and mostly all I'm learning about is God and things that have to do with him. But yet despite all you or I know about God it is easy to be so consumed in our schedules that we forget what relationship really means and we slowly draw away from him.

I read back over some of my old blog posts that I wrote in my first year at bible college and am in awe of how in love with Jesus I was. I remember the passion and life that flowed through my veins-I had extraordinary energy to serve him and bring him praise.

My prayer to fall in love with him again is coming true. He is speaking deep truth to me about who he is and making my heart burst with joy at the thought of being his daughter once again. Every time I worship or pray I either start crying tears of joy or come close to it.

God doesn't force himself on us and we grieve his spirit when we chase after our own plans and busy schedules rather than him. We need to sit at his feet like Mary and not run ourselves in circles like Martha thinking we are pursuing after him when we don't even have time to listen to "what he says."

Luke 10:38-42

"As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!

“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

Are you a Martha?

Tess