More Time with Him

It's been a while.

I'm not really sure where to begin so I'll tell you all what's been on my mind lately.

I recently started a course at IHOP (no not the Pancake House) on living a life of prayer.  I'm not too far into my course, just a few sermons, but one of the requirements for the course is spending at least 8 hours a week in corporate prayer and worship.  This requires me to be much more intentional with my prayer times.

During the past few weeks I've been in the presence of the Lord much more, because I've been putting in the effort to be with the beautiful Creator himself.  

I've discovered something interesting about the Christian life.  We can't be complacent.

It's that simple.

I know I've been pretty bad with this throughout the years.  I often expect God to do big things in my life without putting the effort to spend time with God.  What am I'm I, lazy or something?  Well, yes that's exactly right.  I'm being lazy with my relationship with God.

And God loves us all immensely and loves giving gifts to his children.  I know that the things God does in my life is not dependent on me (thank goodness) but I can't just sit back and let him do all that work.  That's not really what a relationship is supposed to look like. 

So this "required" time with God is really good for me because it allows me to consciously put in effort to be with the Lord of the entire Universe.  And that's incredible! 

I know that I will fail God.  It's inevitable sinful human nature.  That doesn't mean that I quit trying to do the will of God and that I quit entering the presence of the Lord. 

God will do great things when we are there and willing to listen.  As one movie put it, "It's not easy but it's simple." (brownie points for guessing which movie). 

So spend more time with God today.  He will probably surprise your socks off with something incredible because you chose  to spend time with Him over everything else.