Playing with my Cell Phone

I'm sitting here "playing with my cell phone" for the last fifteen minutes when I was supposed to be sitting down to write down what was on my heart and what was on my mind. I have so much to do and right now is no exception. But despite everything that I "have to do" I know that God is not blind to what I think that I "need" to get done. An arrogant race of men is what we are. We prove ourselves arrogant as what we actually spend our time on defines for us what is actually the most important to us.

We can say over and over again that God is the most important thing in our lives but what do we speak about the most, what do we write about the most, what do we give to the most in our mind's time. It is so easy to get lost in what 'we' think is important to do. And then fall into the prowling lion's trap of trying to define what we think is important to God. That is to say that we try to do what we think is important and then later attempt to shape that which is important to us into something that is "important" to God.

Here is the truth. There is no way to find out what is important to God unless we talk to God and ask him. Or if we are having trouble "hearing" that gentle voice (1 Kings 19:11-13), then reading the scriptures are useful for teaching us what God wants, how we should live. I keep on saying "we" but of course I am thinking primarily about me this morning. But I also hope that others will benefit from the things that I am struggling with this morning.