I have to practice for the church musical, I have to study for that test, I have to finish buying my christmas gifts, oh yeah I need to go help my grandma because I promised, oh and I need to count and take an inventory on how many shirts I have sold, oh wait I also have too….Goodness life is busy sometimes. We call this the Holiday season, the busy time when everything seems to come at you all at once. I have a thousand things going through my head. Most are anxious thoughts, because I’m not one that enjoys when things are undone. So more than thinking about all of the these things ,I tend to worry about all of them and they eventually become all I can think about. With all of this craziness running through my head, I don’t stop think about the most important thing my relationship with Jesus.
I try to make him number one, I try not to neglect our relationship, but sometimes life gets in the way. I have been pretty good about staying on top off it. But the devil knows how when I get busy and stressed its easier to say well I don’t have time to spend with God. He’s dang good at doing that. I shouldn’t let him. I should make God number one. Mathew 6:33 reminds me to ” Seek first the Kingdom and all these will be added unto you.” So basically It’s saying that if I give God the time I have first he will multiply my time. So all of the things that I’m worried about will be taken care of him, because I have confided in him before letting my anxious thought take my time. It all starts with giving it back to him. It’s the hardest part is getting to that point, but when you are there it’s a relief.
I know I’m not the only one who gets “too busy” for the lord, or don’t make time to read there bible and further the relationship. In this busy season we need to remember what the whole “reason for the season is.” We just came out of a holiday of thanksgiving, so why in this time do we tend to neglect him most? After all he is the main reason for it, if we didn’t have him then we wouldn’t have CHRISTmas. Even though he’s often not, he should be our main focus. In this time, we should be spending more time with him.
So I’m proposing another challenge, this Christmas season, we take time from the Chaos, and we spend with the Lord. I want to challenge you not to forget the real meaning and realize how we would be if he didn’t come to earth. He took away and did something we could never do on our own. I challenge that In everything christmas you do that you involve Christ in it.
I pray that your chaos is minimal, that your worries go away, and that this Christmas season you feel the peace and Love the savior came to give.
“Come to me all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” Mathew 11:28
With Hugs,
Lexi
