God time

Dear friends

What does your typical day look like?

Do you go to work every day? Or work from home on some days?

And after work, do you spend time with friends or / and family perhaps?

Do you use social media?

Me, I am guilty of watching reels on instagram….. sometimes for hours……..

And I was wondering lately what the balance is like in MY life between worldly time and GOD time – and I for myself decided that this balance is off!

I do try to have a quiet time with GOD every morning, reading at least one chapter of the bible and then doing my best to listen to GOD with my journal and a pen ready – before the business of the day starts finding me.
And I said I try.
Sometimes I am too tired and hit the snooze button too often before I have to leave the house, so that my planned time with GOD is postponed to the evening – or sadly sometimes even cancelled if something else is going on before bedtime.
Speaking of which, that’s another time I intend to spend with HIM – before I go to sleep. With prayer, intercession, just speaking with HIM about what impressed me during the day – positively or negatively.
And as in the morning, this time often gets interrupted, postponed or cancelled, sometimes even replaced by useless things like scrolling through the reels on instagram…… I’ve intentionally deleted tiktok, came off facebook (for many reasons, wasting of too much time is just one of them), I don’t have a TV, but the reels are still a challenge I am only good at conquering sometimes, not all the time….

And I was thinking, what a way to treat the person I love the most?

If this was my physical dad, I would be so ashamed and feel so guilty, and in fact, it hit me the other day how negligent I have been treating my HEAVENLY FATHER.

But when I need something and want HIM to help me, I expect HIM to be on call 24/7!

And HE is!!!!!!!

Always there, always listening, always helping, always loving, always providing – and me???

I do feel guilty and bad.

And I am determined to better myself.

I want to spend more time with GOD.

In the end, nothing else is as fulfilling and satisfying anyway, I don’t even truly know why I am doing all these other things!
For instance, when I watch all these reels right before bedtime, I can hardly fall asleep, the wrong music is playing in my head, I feel agitated and not at peace at all. I sometimes even dream of these things, which tells me that my soul doesn’t have enough time to process them before I drift off and that makes me take them with me, which isn’t what I want!

On the other hand, on those evenings when I manage to spend time with godly things, I sleep much better and I have PEACE.
On one night per week, for example, I meet with a sister (online) and we speak about our outreach project and what has been happening and what needs to happen next and how we’re going to move forward and in the end, we pray for the ministry and for ourselves.
That’s my night of great sleep!
Or on the day(s) when I serve – in prison as a volunteer for chaplaincy for instance.
On these days, I sometimes don’t even need anything to help relax, I just go to bed and sleep…..I believe you will probably have your own examples of how what you do before you go to bed affects your rest during the night…..

What could be more beneficial than prayer and GOD time before we sleep??

I don’t know about you, but me, I want a deeper and stronger relationship with GOD, want to hear HIM more, want to be more aligned with HIS will and yes, like anyone else, I want to get more of my personal prayers answered by HIM.

I do feel privileged of how strong and deep our relationship is, but I want to nourish it, cultivate it, cherish it, show HIM how much I love HIM and HIS presence!

What do you think is the best way to intensify and deepen a relationship, how do we get closer to someone we love?

We could spend (more) quality time with them!

We could speak with them more so that we get to know them better.

We could do our best to do them favors, to please them, to bring them gifts, to appreciate them with words and deeds….

I want to do just that.

I want to stop treating GOD like a 911-service whom I only call when I am in trouble. It’s not that drastic, but what I mean to say is I want to spend more time with HIM, speak with HIM more, even in the middle of the day – I would check in with a loved one, send a text, make a quick call, wouldn’t I? So why wouldn’t I do the same with JESUS?
What makes me even more feel as if I need to change is this:
I am currently single, but I know, if I had a man, I would treat him differently to the way I treat GOD. I would check in with him often, would be considerate of his needs, would even try to spend as much time with him as possible – if my man was there, I don’t think I would scroll on instagram!!!
And yet GOD has always been there, will always be there, even if I never get married again, GOD will be with me for ETERNITY, and how do I treat HIM or HIS presence?

I really do need to change, friends!

What do you think?

Are you happy with the amount of time and devotion you are giving to GOD in your life?

If you are, has this always been the case or has there been a time when you realized you needed to change?

And if you have changed, how did you do it?

Or if you haven’t given your life to THE LORD yet, will you do it today, will you do it NOW?
Will you consider to make HIM your LORD and surrender your life completely to HIM?
(If that is so, please go to the homepage of this blog and find more information there).

I hope and pray that this will inspire, bless, heal and encourage you.
And that THE LORD will bless you abundantly in all areas of your life, that HE will keep you and shine HIS face upon you and bring you PEACE.
In JESUS’ name I pray.
AMEN.