Jesus Time

I spent the weekend with my best friend from college, Ally. She lives two hours away so we don't see each other has much as we would like to. So when we do see each other it is nothing but catching up on our lives and what the Lord is doing for us. She leaves for Africa two days after I leave for Haiti so we talked about getting prepared for our trips, her love life, my marriage, school, work, and just life in general. Every time I spend any amount of time with her when she leaves I catch myself always thinking about "the least of these." I always end up thinking how much I am longing to be closer to Jesus. She just brings these things out in me and I am thankful for that. 

I find myself so preoccupied with so many things in my life that I forget to spend sweet time with Jesus. I need to be striving EVERYDAY to have a stronger and more intimate relationship with Him, and EVERYDAY I fail! Why do I keep failing? Well there are so many reasons... laziness, social media, texting, and TV are the main 4 things that keep me from that Jesus time my heart is truly longing for. I believe that laziness is the number one problem in all of America. We have so many things that make our lives so easy we get used to it and become lazy. 

I want to spend more quality time with Jesus, learning who He is, what he wants from me, being closer and closer with Him each day. I want and need to dive into the Word of His Father and  surrender myself to Him in deep prayer. He has so much for my life and I don't even know the half of it because I am comfortable, too comfortable to keep reading, learning, traveling, helping others, and everything else He has commanded.

When He said to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, give water to the thirsty, love the hurting, care for the orphaned and elderly He wasn't saying those things as suggestions...He was COMMANDING
it. We all need more Jesus time, more time doing things for others and not ourselves. We live in a selfish and dying culture, and I am striving to change that1

Until next time...Luke 3:11