"We have adopted a Christianity consumed with little devotional thoughts from God for the day, supplemented by teaching in the church filled with entertaining stories and trite opinions on how to be a better person and live a better life in the twenty-first century." ~David Platt, Radical
This is a very true statement. In America today, Christians have busy lives. Being busy I don't think is a sin in itself. Busyness that causes us to be distracted from our relationship with God and place idols in front of Him is what is sin. Many people have a daily quiet time in which they read a little devotional book or a chapter in the Bible to spend some time with God and may say a prayer for a few minutes. But honestly, is that truly enough spiritual food for our souls?
I mean think about it... physically we are to eat 3 big meals a day, or 6 small meals a day in order to survive on a healthy diet. And eating is something 99.9% of the human population take seriously. What about feeding ourselves spiritually? Do we chew on God's Word in big chunks 3 times a day? Or do we take time to talk to Him a few minutes every few hours or so? I'm not trying to make you think that we need to have a daily check list for our relationship with God or that there are certain rituals that we must do in order to gain acceptance. But what I am saying is that we really need to take a close, in-depth look into how important God and our relationship with Him is to us.
God is available to us 24/7/365 (366 on leap year ;) ). But how often do we make ourselves available to Him? We always want God to be there for us, and no doubt He is, but we never want to be there for Him. God made us for Him. He didn't make us for us. Most of us believe that if we give God 5-10 minutes a day then we are doing Him a favor. That's not the case. In fact, we need to spend time with God (whether it's by reading the Bible, praying, listening to a podcast, personal worship, etc) many times a day. And I just gave multiple options for us to use/do.
Find things that work for you. I enjoy reading the Bible, journaling about what I learned, praying, listening to a podcast, reading a faith-based book, and listening to Christian music as ways of spending time with God each day and feeding my soul so that the Holy Spirit will be strengthened in me to fight and make war against my sinful nature.
"If you and I are going to penetrate our culture and the cultures of the world with the Gospel, we desperately need minds saturated with God's Word." ~David Platt, Radical
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