This blog has really been helping cement the things that I believe the Lord is teaching me. However, I got convicted the other day when I started getting more excited about posting here than actually spending time with the Lord.
Two main thoughts fueled the conviction.
When Jess and I were in Michigan spending time with his family for Christmas, we would often end the day by watching a Christmas movie. We weren't really communicating, just sitting together doing something. Towards the end of the two weeks we were there, and his mom, sister and I went out for a coffee/girls chat, his mom said,
"Activity should never take the place of communication. We have been doing a lot of things together since you've been here, but we haven't really been talking."
She was lamenting the fact that although we were all together in one house, we weren't really of one mind. This led me to think of another situation.
Our pastor is really good about being transparent from the platform. He will usually repent for a wrong heart attitude from the pulpit, with tear stained eyes, because he so wants the best for all of us and does not want to get in the way. It's really refreshing, and we all respect him and appreciate him so much more for it. I also really like it because I haven't really ever had a male spiritual head in my life (other than Jess :) ) who is so transparent. It also makes me more apt to really hear what he has to say when he dishes out the hard-to-swallow-truths on Sunday mornings.
Anyway, in the middle of one of our pastor's confessions from the pulpit he said,
"I thought DOING stuff for God could take the place of SPENDING TIME with Him, so I became so busy DOING stuff that I neglected BEING with Him."
There's a problem when we're sitting beside each other, but not sharing our hearts.
There's a problem when we're so busy doing, that we forget being.
I'm sorry I got so busy doing things for You that I forgot how to just spend time with You.
You are the most important.
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