Take Time For God

Good Morning to all my friends. This is another day that God has given us, let us be glad and rejoice in it. My prayer for you is that God will bless each of you today and give you His peace and His comfort in all that you do. Today's Challenge------------------ Take Time For God “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God’s sight.” Luke 16:15 So often in life we get our minds and our lives focused away from serving God. We get so carried away with wanting the things of the world, and spending our time on our own pleasures that we forget to devote any time to serving and worshipping God. Our businesses, our hobbies, our relationships and even our families consume all our time and we have no time left for God. When this occurs we find ourselves trusting in our own selves and our own abilities to make our lives enjoyable and successful. I encounter so many people who are running to and fro and have no time left to even take time to have a meal together with their families. Many of these people think they have found the secret to being successful in their businesses and their family relationships. So often we forget that even though we think we are doing it by ourselves, God is still in control and can in an instant take away our so called success, as we have seen by the recent disasters such as hurricanes and tornadoes that have destroyed all the material wealth people have spent a lifetime accumulating. We think we have our values adjusted to what we want and desire out of life, and ones that make us blend in with the crowd, and make us appear to others that we have it all together. But when our values are centered toward worldly things and are all a show we put on, so that we will be recognized and respected by the people around us, we could easily be crossing the line as to what God tells us to do. When we get our minds away from God’s values and commands we are walking on thin ice. God knows our hearts and whether or not our motives for our actions and behavior are reflective of his wishes for us. Many times what we place a value on may make us part of the in crowd, but is detestable in God’s sight. We need to step back and assess our lives and seek God’s wisdom to determine if we are doing the things that God has willed for us. We need to ask ourselves if we are taking the time to spend with God and seeking his wisdom as to what his plan is for us. God has a plan and a purpose for each of us, and his plan will be revealed to each of us when we seek him. He will let us know what his will for us is, and when we seek to do his will, we will know whether our values are the ones that are pleasing to the eyes of men or to God. When we stand before God one day and give an accounting of our lives, we want our values that we have followed during our lives to be ones that are pleasing in God’s eyes and not men’s eyes. My Daily Devotional Volume Two December 26 Robert William Brock, Jr.