15 minutes could save you…
No I’m not an advocate for Geico…but 15mins could save you a lot of headache and pain.
This past week our pastor issued a challenge to us to start spending at least 15mins a day reading the bible. Like he said, for some of us this may be in addition to what we’re already reading…or for some it may be the only time we spend in the text.
Well…I accept, and in turn I have challenged my life group to walk through this together.
I’ve chosen James as a starting point, Why? Because I heard wise man once say (from hence forth I’ll refer to him as “my friend on the journey”) that… “If you want to know how to be a Godly man…read James”.
I’ll be blogging about what I’m learning as we go.
And so…it begins, I started reading in James last night…didn’t get very far. James 1:1 to be exact, before I had to stop and rethink a few things that troubled me in that verse. I get this feeling that James and I are not going to get along very well.
More to come on James 1:1 a little later. For now, if you’re not engaging the text daily…just do it. If you take the smallest step toward God…you’ll find Him.
I’ll leave you with probably the most gut wrenching statement I’ve heard in a long time, made by my friend on the journey…I think he’s got a little bit of “James” in him.
“This book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book. If you are not spending any time in the word of God, it’s not because you don’t have time…it’s simply because you are being disobedient to God, and sin is keeping you from this book”.
Lets just digest that for a little while…
-c
If you missed this past Sunday’s message, you can listen to it online at http://media.miamivalley.org
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October 26th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
My processing:
v1 “…a servant of God…” – I think for too long I have worried about serving God by maybe going about it all wrong. I get too caught up in making other people happy and sometimes lose focus on what I should be doing, due to fear of several things (i.e., not wanting confrontation, not wanting to upset someone by not agreeing with them, feeling like maybe someone else is closer to God and knows better about what I should be doing than me, etc). I need to quit getting caught up in other “stuff” and focus on being a servant of God.
v2-4 – I sure haven’t been “joyous” in the many trials it seems I/me and Clint face. It seems like there are too many sometimes and I get tired…which should lead me back to the Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Maybe I haven’t been going there enough…if at all. This is as far as I got today – I think I need to stay here for a bit.