I found this quote on one of my favorite blogs and it stopped me in my tracks....I had to catch my breath. You know that kind of feeling that is way down deep in your gut. I struggle with the world's desire to be busy and fight against it alot and then sometimes just go with it and make myself as busy...falling in love with the world and its claims.....sometimes the business is just a fact of life or is it? How many times do we choose it? But no matter how it comes in and takes over, after some time it leaves me empty....in total want of something...and it takes me a while to figure it out.....
Then my husband posted a John Piper quote earlier this week:
"One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time."
— John Piper
My response to this was, "OUCH!"
That was painful. Painful that I let distractions overtake my time with God. Now don't get me wrong..I love blogging and facebook and I am not going to just cut off from the world....i mean i still live in the world....and for goodness sakes I would go crazy as a stay at home mom with no connection to the outside world....plus i receive so much encouragement from others that i feel like I am apart of the facebook/blogging family of God. Maybe I am trying to justify it...but the point is...we have much to gain from each other....yet...if we lack in prayer and time alone with God we will still be in want.....
I have had some of those days where i feel like beating my head against a wall....but instead i just go to facebook and hit refresh over and over just so I don't have to deal with preschool/toddler world.....THAT is where i screwed up. I should recited scripture in my head or sat down to get some God perspective on my little blessings that I get to disciple not only by Word by my EVERY response, reaction,.....MY WHOLE LIFe.
Help me Lord to live out the gospel in my life through prayer and spiritual disciplines that bring my closer to YOU, so I can be like YOU.
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