I greeted my Bible tonight and felt like we have suffered from a distant relationship as of late. I find within me a longing to recapture the old days of disciplined reading. The days when I would have a reading plan and slowly progress through the whole giant thing! Those days were a bit more religious but my motivation was good at the heart of it all. Lately I’ve been going where I felt led and God has led me to the Psalms often and Jude occasionally as well. Things that build, encourage, and protect my soul. It’s good stuff. But I kind of miss everything else. Dwelling on one book or a set of scriptures over long times is great, but I find myself needing to progress through the rest of that beautiful best-seller of a book.
What do I do? I haven’t had a successful and formal devotional time in years. It’s been more of a random day to day deal which seemed to work well for me, but as my life gets busier, randomness doesn’t play well. Thus the battle of value. What do I value most? If there is one thing I’ve been more aware of than anything else these past few weeks/months, it would be my needs. Now comes the balance, oh the balance.
So my balance must become - Time with God, Time with People, Time with Work, Time with Food, Time with Myself, Time with Responsibilities…
So Mister Bible. I’ll be seeing more of you soon. You’ll be in my schedule, my life schedule. We’ll be friends and you will lead me into encounters with my beautiful God and my beautiful God, the Holy Spirit, Jesus, will lead me into all truth and it will be wonderful…
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