"I'm not a morning person. I can't get out of bed in the morning to be in the Word."
"I'm too tired at night to be in the Word. It's just not effective!"
"I don't have the time to be in the Word. I don't want to do it just because someone tells me I HAVE to."
"There's nowhere in the Bible that tells me I HAVE to do it a certain way..."
"I don't want to do it if my heart isn't in it."
What would have happened if Jesus had looked at His Father and said:
"I'm not really a "cross person"...those nails may not be comfortable!"
"You know, moving from heaven to earth to live like those people do, and be rejected and persecuted and treated like dirt by a bunch of ungrateful people won't be very fun...I'm not really an 'earth person'!"
"So what if I am going to be raised from the dead in three days, I'll still have to be tortured and then laid in a tomb for 3 days...I'm not really a 'tomb person'!"
"I don't know how effective it will be for me to stay up and pray all night, while my disciples fall asleep, in order to get through what You have called me to do. I'm not really a 'night person'!"
"I know, Father, that you say that this is the only way that Your people will be saved from eternal death, but I'm not so sure that I want to go to earth just because You say that it is the only way. Do I have to do it just because You say I HAVE to?"
-excerpt from Internet Cafe Devotions, Gina
Good thing Jesus did what God told Him to do.. . no more negotiations.. . no more what ifs.. .or whatever.. . yet we still find reasons not to pray.. .to be in His Word.. .
You don't have to have any reasons for you to read it.. .Just do it.. . because you NEED it.. . can't live without it.. . it's His Word.. . His very Word.. .
Comments