Do you have a quiet time for God? Is there a time of day you set aside to seek the Lord? I encourage anyone who is serious about following Jesus Christ to have a time each day dedicated for seeking the Lord and studying His Word the Bible. During your time with Christ ask Him to continue to mold you into what He designed you for. Meditate on the Word, consider how much God's loves you to have created you as part of His eternity!

Remember those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength! God Bless your time with Him!

Plato

Several months back we had made a decision in our house to honor God in the financial area of our life and began to tithe our ten percent. We have always given to the church but on what was left and what we could afford after we took care of our earthly obligations. At the beginning of 09 I also made the decision to start spending more time in his Word. As I began to read daily, sometimes one chapter and sometimes several, I began to think about the parallels between my tithing of my finances and that of my time. What is or was the difference between giving what was left of my finances to God and giving him what is or what was left of my time to read his word or to spend time in prayer.

In Malachi 1:6 the Lord asks/or states

⁶ “ A son honors his father,
And a servant his master.
If then I am the Father,
Where is My honor?
And if I am a Master,
Where is My reverence?

I have this picture in my head of my Holy Father standing before me like an earthly father, arms folded, trying to get his earthly son to understand this simple concept of love, honor and obedience. In order for me to be able to totally and completely honor my Father in heaven I needed to spend more time with Him in his Word in order to understand his direction for my life and to find what “gift” he gave me to work with for His glory.

How can one honor such as God? Remember we are speaking of the creator of all things past, present and future. One who has no beginning and no end. In Ephesians 6:18 Paul calls us to pray always with all prayer and supplication… pray always. Our time with God in study of his word and in prayer should be the best of our fruits. Nehemiah 10:35-38 shows us how we are commanded to give him just that. Our best. Whether it is the first of our flocks, cattle, fruits, grains or oils, he deserves the best of everything that we have because they come from him.

And there was my answer. God doesn’t put time restraints or allowances on us to spend time with him, because to truly honor him the answer is… always.

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