I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about how sometimes I use my kids as a crutch. I use them as an excuse to not give God my everything. What are you saying Michael? Well I work very hard through the week keeping up with my 2 year old and my 6 month old and I tend to fall into this free time dilemma...when I have it I want it all to myself to do something I want to do and a lot of the time praying and reading the Word are not up there on my free time priority list...sad huh? I would say so too...I came to this conclusion that I need to reinvent my love for prayer and the Word and stop using my kids as a crutch to do that. I will be honest I am tired, cranky, and unmotivated when it is all said and done at the end of the day but the reason I am those things is because I have not got the supernatural strength within me from the Lord to help me complete my day with peace, happiest, joy, love, and so on.
I believe we all have a lot to do during the day and making time to enter into the presence of God should very well be a priority not a chore or job. When we look at our kids we should see the Lord looking right back at us. As for our free time we really should use it to enjoy things we like but we need to like spending time with the Lord as much of if not more then watching that new movie or playing that new video game or making that extravagant dinner...to be honest some times we need to eat rice and beans a few nights to save some time for the Lord we don't always need that spread each night...a short 30 minute meal will buy us some time for an infilling of true nourishment and if you think about it you don’t have to worry about God’s food being anything less then organic and you don’t need to spend 10 minutes reading nutrition facts to see if what we are ingesting is healthy it is 100% all natural, organic goodness for the spirit and soul.
Just a little side note…I am all about eating healthy taking care of the temple is very important (not that I don’t splurge sometimes and eat a little something a shouldn’t) but if I am spending more time reading about nutrition facts and the next new “green” thing then hanging out with the Lord I would be somewhat out of balance wouldn’t I? I think so…now some of you might not agree and that’s okay you don’t have to that is the cool thing about opinions just take the nuggets that help you…but what is the point of eating healthy and thinking green if my spirit is in the gutter being marinated with my leftovers and waist that trickles off of me each day…what happened to that intimate hour with the Lord?
Instead of saving the world one piece of toilet paper at a time why not think about saving the world one soul at a time.
What happened to being “Kingdom Minded”? Oh it has been run over with “Think Green”. I am not saying don’t do your part in the green movement but do your part in the Kingdom movement as well.
Enjoy…
I believe we all have a lot to do during the day and making time to enter into the presence of God should very well be a priority not a chore or job. When we look at our kids we should see the Lord looking right back at us. As for our free time we really should use it to enjoy things we like but we need to like spending time with the Lord as much of if not more then watching that new movie or playing that new video game or making that extravagant dinner...to be honest some times we need to eat rice and beans a few nights to save some time for the Lord we don't always need that spread each night...a short 30 minute meal will buy us some time for an infilling of true nourishment and if you think about it you don’t have to worry about God’s food being anything less then organic and you don’t need to spend 10 minutes reading nutrition facts to see if what we are ingesting is healthy it is 100% all natural, organic goodness for the spirit and soul.
Just a little side note…I am all about eating healthy taking care of the temple is very important (not that I don’t splurge sometimes and eat a little something a shouldn’t) but if I am spending more time reading about nutrition facts and the next new “green” thing then hanging out with the Lord I would be somewhat out of balance wouldn’t I? I think so…now some of you might not agree and that’s okay you don’t have to that is the cool thing about opinions just take the nuggets that help you…but what is the point of eating healthy and thinking green if my spirit is in the gutter being marinated with my leftovers and waist that trickles off of me each day…what happened to that intimate hour with the Lord?
Instead of saving the world one piece of toilet paper at a time why not think about saving the world one soul at a time.
What happened to being “Kingdom Minded”? Oh it has been run over with “Think Green”. I am not saying don’t do your part in the green movement but do your part in the Kingdom movement as well.
Enjoy…
