Priorities, Priorities

I have come to realise that you can't put right years of wrongs quickly. When we turn to God and admit that we have gone away from where we should be, and have decided to recommit our lives to Him it seems easy to say the right things. We make great promises to God, we aim high as far as changing our lives goes, we say that we will read our Bible daily, pray daily and talk to God through out the day. We even commit to getting up earlier in order to do this before the busyness of the day starts. Then reality hits home and you ask yourself can I do this?
The night before you are filled with good intentions and you set your alarm for 30 minutes before you normally get up for the next day, you even get your Bible out ready, and then you fall asleep.....
The next morning arrives and the alarm goes off and you hit snooze, just 5 more minutes and then I will get up you telll yourself.... and then you snooze again before you drag yourself out of bed feeling worse than if you had got up straight away. Downstais you go, eyes hardly able to focus let alone read anything and so you put the kettle on for a cup of tea. After your drink you look at your watch and you have 5 minutes left before you have to start getting ready for work and so you decide not to start today, tomorrow will be different but we all know tomorrow never comes.......

What do we have to do? Joyce Meyer says that you don't get anything done with wish bone it takes back bone to do anything. We have to get tough with ourselves and keep reminding ourselves who we made these promises to. It was to our Father God who loves us and longs to have fellowship with us so that he can talk to us through his word and through prayer. We have to get our priorities right at the start of the day.

Include God right at the start and the day seems to go smoother than if we hadn't. It sets up right for the day with the right mindset because the devil fights us for our thoughts before we even get up and when we hit snooze we are listening to his voice and not God's. We need to keep reminding ourselves that this is as important to us as going to work is and that we can't skip this time in the morning.

The key message is fit your life around God and not God around your life.