Last week I left my house to go see a movie with my wife without my cell phone. I realized it after we were almost to the theatre. I felt lost without my phone, I was surprised the anxiety that I had. My wife had her phone with her in case there was an emergency or one of our children needed us. So we had communication with the world if needed, but I didn’t have my cell phone.
After buying the movie tickets and sitting down, I told myself this was crazy it’s just a cell phone stop these feelings. It is the evening your customers or friends will live for the most part if you don’t call back for an hour and a half. I was able to sit and enjoy the movie, as soon as we headed back to our car my thoughts returned to going home and getting my cell phone.
As we were driving home I had this random thought, why don’t I have that same intensity about my relationship with Christ? Why don’t I worry and fret if I don’t have my quiet time at the start of the morning? I am not trying to be a fanatic, but my relationship with Christ I say if at the top of my list. By my thoughts and worries you can see it isn’t. I have a friend he told me that God is more and more talking to him about his relationship between he and Christ is paramount. God is slowly and lovingly teaching him to let the other things that he thinks is important to realize that they aren’t as important as his relationship with Christ is.
I used to have and some of you may have the view that God is this big guy sitting in Heaven waiting for us to screw up so he can smack us down. God tells us that he is a jealous God and in the 10 commandments “we are to have no other Gods before him”. But from what I see in God working in my friends life and mine. God puts having a relationship that is two ways between us and him as the most important, not the busyness we equate with effectiveness.
I am taking more time to spend with Christ this next year and I will let you know how it goes.
