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October 12, 2005
State of the Spirit
I thought it was time for me to update my readers on the spiritual state of things in my life. I guess one could call this my written "state of the spirit" address. I apologize for the length, hopefully you'll find it worth reading.To start, those of you who go to my church already know this, but to get everyone else up to speed; this past weekend I went to a youth conference with my church's youth group. The guest speaker was Phillippe Pinero, missionary to Vanuatu. (spelling?) The conference spoke to me in many areas. One such area was my commitment to the Lord. Think like this; if I were to ask you "are you committed to the Lord's will in your life?" you would most likely say yes. Bro. Pinero posed the question, "how much of your time do you give to the Lord?" Sure, maybe you tythe ten percent or whatever, but how much time do you give to the Lord. This not only includes going to church, but witnessing, praying, reading your Bible, etc. I will take that a step further by pointing out that every breath we have is a gift from God. Our very lives are His. Isn't it the very least we can do to give ten percent or more of what we call "our" time to Him? Now, this doesn't mean that every minute should be spent in the church or something extreme like that. We can spend time with God no matter what we are doing. Prayer doesn't have to involve bowing our head, closing our eyes, wearing a veil, or what have you. It involves speding time in communication with God. That can happen anywhere, anytime. Not just in a tie and jacket at church, not just before a meal, but dressed in shorts and a tee, going sixty miles an hour down the highway. It's all about concentrating more on what's important to God than what is important to us. Why? Because when we love God, we'll want to spend time with him.
Well, so far you know nothing of where I am only what I learned. I realized due to this example and other such examples that I really wasn't giving my time to God. Sure, on Sunday it was all about God, but during the week, God sat on the shelf with my Bible. I didn't consider what God says about my actions, every minute of every day. Now, not to say that I do those things with perfection right now, but it is more of a concentration on my mind.
I was reading these verses in the Bible recently and thought I would post them here for you.
1 Peter 1
6 ΒΆ In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,
7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
[emphasis added]
Posted by Addison on October 12, 2005 05:23 PM
