Are my devotions more a routine than a relationship?   

YIKES!!!   Do I have to even ASK that question?!

 

That is a question I posed myself this morning as I wrestled with a pressing project and my devotional time. In fact, even writing this piece I am jostling back and forth with the short time I have today to get things done. The prescriptions we often use can quite literally take the friendship with the Lord out of the picture altogether. Particularly when we are following someone else’s “plan” or are fulfilling an online group devotional.

I’m just saying this to myself this morning – remember! This time is Jesus time, not wordsmith time or box-checking time. Get quiet. Get together with the Lord of life and be close.

 

Psalm 103:2-5

Bless the Lord, Oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

 

NOW- if THAT doesn’t remind me WHO it is that I’m fellowshipping with this morning, I don’t know WHAT will!!

Remember! THIS is the ONE who I’m sitting with this morning!