Learning to Eat Daily

When I neglect being one on one with God for a season, life is more overwhelming, depressing and the daily chores become all that I can manage (and sometimes more than I can). But when I am continually aiming to be saturated by God's character, by His life in me, by reading His word, memorizing important scriptures, and just sitting and listening to Him. I have never regretted one second of my time.

When I do this I am also so much more likely to be tuned to what is being said in Church as well- I don't sit there thinking of my To Do lists or of who we will get together with afterwards. Because I am more united to his moving I can feel it all and hear it all so much more clearly when I am accustomed to how He sounds. If Christ needed daily communion with His father, why do we expect to wander through life on so much less than that. We so often get busy and put it off, or never had a plan to spend a second with Him at all in the first place. But then we forgo the daily bread that God gives our soul to feast on. Those days are much more fleshly focoused, and need oriented- because we haven't taken the time to feed our spiritual man.

If you don't even know where to start, or feel just so dried out spiritually where nothing can reach you- ease in one little toe at a time, don't lay pressures on yourself that God hasn't placed there. Take it easy, but don't stay there, move closer and closer at every chance you get. I enjoy reading a daily devotional book after I've read the Bible, or sometimes before. I can't recommend My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers enough. It should never take the place of you reading the bible for yourself, but when read along with the Word of God it is life changing. I love reading it. I enjoy reading the short little segments even throughout the day to get me re- focused on what is actually important in life.

There is much to be gleaned from the men of God that have walked before us. I am humbled by what I have read, revived, and refreshed-when we neglect to spend time with Him daily we miss His utmost in our lives, and are settling for much less than we can imagine. I challenge you to take up your Bible daily and read for yourself what God means to speak to you- you will not want to, your flesh will fight  it, but in a daily devotion time with Christ you will be filled and even better, you will begin to look more like Him.

Spending that time with God daily was never meant to be a burden on us, but it can feel that way. It is not an obligation, or a duty but a reward- a deep time of heaven on earth time with the Creator. A time where He can lay His burdens on your heart, put your perspectives in order, and challenge you to see and do new things.

Today is a mighty fine time to start!!

I'll leave you with a little tidbit from My Utmost for His Highest:

Keep your life so constant in its contact with God tht His suprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, ad see that you leave room for God to com in as He likes (p.25).

Our ordinary wits never worship God unless they are transfigured by the indwelling Son of God. We have to see that this mortal flesh is kept in perfect subjection to Him and that He works through it moment by moment. Are we living in such human dependence upon Jesus Christ that His life is being manifested moment by moment? (p. 222).

I'd love to hear what you do in your daily devotional time! Some people read one proverb a day in addition to their reading, others read a certain number of chapters from the Bible. What has worked best for you? Do you have a devotional book that you enjoy reading as well?

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