I have kind of been at a lose for what to write about...and also life has been a little crazy, so I haven't had much time to sit down and think about what I want to post. Then I felt a little convicted today when I heard something on the radio that goes along with the chapter we read this week for a bible study I do with some of my sweet HS girls.
I am not sure which pastor it was on the radio (they feature a lot on KSBJ) but he made some statements that went something like this:
2 hours seems long when we're in church, but 2 hours fly by when we are watching a movie. We struggle to just read one chapter of the bible, yet we can finish the latest book in a day (guilty) we can talk on and on with a friend, yet we can't find time to talk to God.
We could take it even further, and add in boyfriends, facebook, twitter, phone, celebrities...what do you devote your time to?
We are going through the book Lady In Waiting by Jackie Kendall and the chapter we were to read this week was about becoming a Lady of Devotion. Sometimes we devote ourselves fully to trying to find "Mr Right" when we should be using our singleness as a way to devote ourselves to God.
So what do you devote yourself to? Do you spend true time with God? Do you talk to Him? Do you praise Him? Does He come first in your life? Or has something else taken over your devotion, leaving God on the backburner?
And don't think you can be devoted to both. I've heard people say "Of course I love God. I live for Him. But it's ok to like this or that; there's nothing wrong with it."
The bible clearly tells us we can't be devoted to both God and something else in Matthew 6:24-No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
To be honest with you, a lot of people start to love whatever is between them and God more than Him, then end up filling empty afterwards.
You're not the only one who has ever done it. We all at some point have devoted ourselves to other things to find fulfillment and happiness. When we devote ourselves fully to God, we find everything we could ever ask for. It doesn't mean our life will be perfect or easy, but when our life is consumed by our Almighty God, we have the confidence that He will get us through whatever, and fulfill us in a way that the things of the world can't.
