Lately I’ve been very busy with everything I have going on in my life. Between work and my responsibilities at my church I haven’t had a lot of free time. And I’ve started to notice that there is a distance building between God and I. I haven’t been able to read my bible every day. I haven’t been praying as much as I use to. I haven’t figured out much as far as fundraising ideas go. And I actually missed church this past week! It wasn’t because I didn’t want to go or anything like that. I was just so tired that I fell asleep before I had a chance to set my alarm. But still, this isn’t where I want to be in my walk with God!!!
I’ve started to wonder how I’m ever going to make it through this. And then I thought, what ever happened to having faith like David? Where did that fire I had go? The easy thing to say to myself would be that this is just a phase and it’ll pass. But here is the thing, it wont without me trying and having faith. You see David was just a shepherd and too young to fight in the army. But when he came to bring his brothers food, like his father asked him to, he found himself in a place to step up. He found out that this guy Goliath (Who was nine feet tall) was talking bad about God. Everyone was too scared to face him. But David wasn’t because he knew he had God on his side. He didn’t even wear armor when he went to battle or take a sword. He just took five stones and a sling and it was more than enough to conquer the giant!
David was just going through his day doing what he was asked to do when this giant stood before him. But he didn’t waver in his faith. He stood his ground and with God’s help he took the giant down. Right now my giant is the struggles of daily life and lacking time but I’m not going to waiver anymore. I’m going to find and make time to put god first. Because in a few short months I’ll have an even bigger giant in front of me and I can’t waiver. Besides that I want a more intimate relationship with God. I want to know him better than I ever have before.
Recently, I got to meet up with an old friend who is a big part of the reason I’m going into missions. He said something to me that never occurred to me. He said, “Most people look at their phones as soon as they wake up and as soon as they get a message. Wouldn’t it be great if we all would seek God and spend as much time with Him as we do looking at our phones?” Ouch… Yeah, I’m guilty of it too. I spend so much time in a day on my phone but I can’t find a half an hour to spend with God? It has become so intergraded into our lives that we don’t even think about it. He lives in Honduras and those people live so much different than we do here in America. They have faith like David! They don’t wait to call upon God as a last resort. They seek Him first and intergrade Him into their lives daily. Maybe its time to stop blaming our wavering faith on how busy our lives are and start making changes in our lives so that we can all have faith like David again! So from now on I’m going to make more of an effort to seek God first and have faith in Him with everything. The everyday giants as well as the overwhelming ones. I’m not saying you should never get on your phone, but try to check in with God before you check your text messages if you find yourself having the same problem I had.
