Where your treasure is

I was thinking last night, as I began tackling another Sudoku puzzle (the best puzzle game ever, It's highly addictive), how well do I manage my time? I know we've all thought about this at one time or another. I've heard many sermons about how if we look at our checkbooks, we can find out what is important to us. Well, if that is the case, then I must really love fast food. Either way, most times I let those challenges (to manage my time better) just slip my mind as I find something more important to think about.

The truth is, those sermons weren't just some proverb that man came up with. That truth comes right out of the gospels. Jesus states, where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. If I claim to love Christ, and desire to bring him glory, yet my time and energy reflect something totally different, who am I lying to? Myself? Jesus himself? Both? I wonder how often we tell many people how we love Christ, and we even tell him that we love him more than anything else, yet our time and energy reflect something grossly different from what we say. I can talk a good talk, but how often to I walk the way I talk.

I know this post was full of cliches; and in some part, that was intentional because I think sometimes this truth becomes a cliche when it shouldn't be. I want to show people how much I love the Lord by the way I live. I challenge you to do the same.

The usual

Sometimes I wonder how often we really think about the God that we are worshiping? Are we so "used" to reading our Bible, or attending worship services that we lose the sense of awe that we once had? Does reading Scripture just become another thing in the day? Do we really evaluate our hearts like the priests in the Old Testament had to do before they entered the temple? If you've answered yes to any of these, then you are like me, and probably the majority of Christians today.

Where is the sense of awe? How can we forget that we get the opportunity to hear the words of God? How can we forget that we get a chance to sing praises to the CREATOR OF THE WORLD!?!?!?!? Doesn't that seem odd to you? If you were a non-Christian and had the opportunity to watch how believers worship God, would you be interested in it yourself? I'm not saying that we can't feel comfortable approaching God because elsewhere in Scripture we are called the friends of God. However, if there is no sense of awe (or fear of the Lord), how can we acknowledge his glory and his power and his fame? God deserves to be honored with our reverent hearts.

Do me and yourself a favor. Next time you read God's word, or this next Sunday when you attend church, examine your heart and make yourself ready to approach the God of the Universe. I've began doing this and it really helps me to get more out of my Bible reading time, as well as to have a deeper worship time. Let's not let our time with God just become "the usual" thing to do. It should be the most exciting time of our day, and we should prepare our hearts for it! I hope this makes sense.