To busy for God?

This weekend just gone unfortunately I spent ill in bed and the beginning of the week taking it easy and recovering from this. However got me thinking.

On the Sunday lying in bed I was away from TV, had no energy to call or text anyone, even going on facebook was too much effort as didn’t have my contact lenses in and it strained my eyes. I had no energy to do anything but lie in bed, in this time; I put on some worship music and just chilled. Although at time seemed my only option of doing anything other than sleeping, was a time I started to think about spending time with God.

How often in our busy lives do we take the time out to sit and think about what God has done for us? To chill and just be in His presence. So often we find ourselves consumed with the things of ‘now’ but what happens when they end? Our world is a fast, must have, immediately, no waiting, all the go, mentality, and the idea of sitting down for longer than 5 minutes to sit in God’s presence doesn’t enter into normality.

Here’s my question though, how come everyday I manage to usually watch Hollyoaks, check my facebook, or just sit, slob out infront of music channels. I’m not saying any of these things are wrong, but I was just challenged as to why I didn’t prioritise spending time in God’s presence, being still before Him enough.

I would read my Bible, pray and usually have some worship music on at some point in the day. I’d maybe listen to a preach sometimes or read a Christian book, fast sometimes, but when it came to just sitting and being still before God, I found it a tricky one. Within two minutes of sitting down I’ll think of something I have to do or should write down before I forgot, or just find it too weird just sitting silently and quickly give up.

Being ill taught me the beauty of just resting before my Father in Heaven, not rushing away, to get on with my next list of things to do for the day, but just enjoying time with my God. How precious and beautiful it was, the peace I felt despite feeling rough. I didn’t feel anything amazing profound or didn’t hear the thundering voice of God but I knew this time was better than anything else I could be doing, even if I could.

Here’s something that blew my mind on this whole subject, God who created the Universe, who placed the stars in the sky, who created man, who caused the red sea to be parted, died on a cross and rose again to know and have intimacy with people like you and me, WOW!

I’ll leave you one of my favourite passages that just shows the power of what Jesus did for us on the cross:

Matthew 27:51-54:
51And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. 52The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 53and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. 54 When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, "Truly this was the Son of God!"

God's Love

Here’s the truth.

Jesus loves you more than you can ever comprehend or know. He loves you despite your failings, despite when you make a royal muck up and think maybe He needs at least 5minutes to be annoyed at you like any human would. However that’s the thing, God doesn’t love us with human love; He loves us with unconditionally, unbreakable, uncontainable love and wants us to grasp this amazing revelation.

Maybe if he just started to capture and understand a glimmer of this Love we would be dramatically transformed, from the inside out, maybe our lives would change, maybe our work places would change, maybe our relationships with our mates, our boyfriends/girlfriends, our family, maybe even those family members you think would take a miracle to show love too.

What I know and my experience of God there’s no maybe about it, God grabbed hold of me at the age of 14 and poured upon me unconditional love that I never deserved or earned. I hadn’t honoured my parents, I had lied, I had broken at least a few of those 10 commandments, I was no breath of fresh air but Jesus changed me and I know without Him I would not be sitting here writing this today.

14years old I was lying in a hospital bed after being on a life-support machine the previous night after drinking too much, I knew God had saved my life. The night before I cried out to God that He would not let me die, well next morning I’m alive and I am convinced God is real and cares for me. A week later I went to a Christian camp, God softened my heart and a once hard-faced teenager that would never cry in front of anyone was sitting at the back of a meeting in tears and the realisation of what Jesus had done for me on the Cross. That night I gave my life to Christ and choose to follow Him and no longer my way, but His. Now almost 7years later, I want you to know how amazing God is and how He can love you too.

Here's how this started...

Ok ordinary night, I've chilled out, watched some telly, turned the TV off and start praying, worshipping and asking God what does He want me to do for the rest of the evening. I open up a word document and start typing, I became hungry for people to know who He was and so thought try this as an experiment!
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