So Much to Learn

I'm not a bible scholar, but I do love the bible. God has a message for us and I regret that for most of my life I didn't understand that God gave us "Life's Little Instruction Manual." Even now that I know the power of God's word, I still find myself wandering through life as though it's puzzle.

Since the start of 2010, I made a commitment to God that I would stop putting things in the way of my daily time with him. I began to stray about 6 months ago and put God on the back burner. I know when I'm not walking with God on a daily, consistent basis. I tend to be whinny, edgy, discontent, moody, and insensitive. When I spend time with God, I am joyful, charitable, humble, content, and grateful.

I have to add that putting God on the back burner was not intentional. It doesn't take much to replace bible reading and prayer with housekeeping, sleeping, facebook, and work. Notice I didn't say family time. Interestingly, there is a direct correlation between keeping God as a priority and maintaining balance in the other areas of my life.

Without my daily dose of God, I begin feeling sorry for myself too. Filling my time with things other than God, I tend to treat God like a Genie in a lamp who I count on to grant my wishes. Other things suffer too. I grow dissatisfied in my marriage, family, job, and friendships. This is one of those times when I have to return to God and ask Him to forgive me. I remember when God addresses the church at Ephesus. Revelation 2:4 says, "Yet I hold this against you: you have forsaken your first love. That was me! Ephesus needed to be reminded of the height from which they had fallen! God says, "Repent and do the things you did at first."

That's what I'm striving to do. Remember why I need to put God back in the drivers seat. So as I journey back to my first love, I hope I can do a better job of keeping up my blog and share wisdom and insights that God gives me and the circumstances that develop in my life where I apply all the things he is teaching me.

Of course, this is not to be replaced by your own bible study. But if you want to have someone to relate too, you can count on me. I'm just a woman. Nothing special about me, just trying to put things back into perspective and keep them that way.