Time

Recently I have been just crazy busy! School, and a college class, friends and church, the fair, too much stuff! So I've been thinking, how does God feel about all of this? I mean with all of this stuff going on down here how do I make sure that I'm giving God enough time?

Their are only so many hours in a day...and sometimes I feel like their aren't enough. I'm sure that you've felt that way once or twice before. :) Well, recently I have been feeling like that a LOT! My life is just super hectic rights now, and I'm only a teenager! I can't even imagine being an adult, or a parent for that matter. Crazy! Props to all of you who have jobs, kids, and still manage to have God as your number one.
With all of these things that we have to do is God being pushed into the corner? Well I know for me that sometimes, yeah, He does get pushed into the corner. I don't pray as often as I once did, or should be doing. I don't read my bible every day, I don't sit still and just listen enough. I get too pre-occupied.
And I feel like that's how the whole world is right now. They just put God on hold knowing that He will always be their for them. Whenever things slow down, or the going gets rough then they run to God for help. But is that we as Christians should be doing?

I don't think so. God should be number one in our lives, always. Not just one we have enough time, or when we feel like it, or when things get tight, every day 24-7 God needs to be number one in our hearts and our lives.
It's not very hard to say that, but to do it? Wow! It's extremely hard. But their is such a thing called baby steps. You don't have to pray for hours every day and read a whole book of the bible every day and sit still and listen for hours on end. You start slow, you read a chapter, then two, then three, then a set. You start by praying in the morning and before you go to bed. Then you pray in the car on the way to work or on the way home from school. Then you start by setting aside just five minutes of your day every day where you sit and just listen to what He has to say. Then slowly but surely you expand and grow!
It's not that hard, but the first step is always the hardest.
Today I want to challenge you to take that first step. Take a break and pray, then listen.