Simple living

We have become so preoccupied with technology under the pretense that it makes our lives easier that we’ve become numb to the things that are most important. If it doesn’t flash, buzz, or ring we don’t pay attention. All these devices have allowed us to do is become programmed to a society that no longer knows God. Honestly, besides Sunday, how many times during the week do we open the Bible to see what God’s perspective is? We allow schedules to bog us down until we are no longer able to hear the still small voice of God speak to our hearts and then we wonder why He seems so distant only to prove our suspicions that He is unobtainable; therefore we like Abraham come up with our own solutions.

Many “Christians” today have confused relationships with other church people and good deeds with knowing God but never stop long enough to allow God to speak to them; it simply isn’t convenient in this present world of instant gratification. With the idea that if I live according to what the preacher says, go to Bible study, volunteer, and give to those in need or put money in the offering surely then that is knowing God and if there is a God in heaven He must know how busy we are and understands the demands of our schedules. Thinking to ourselves, “To stop and wait for an invisible God to speak to my heart so that I may be led in the things I say and do, who has time for that?”

Matthew 7:22-24 KJV
(22) Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
(23) And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
(24) Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

We are all guilty of not only going over budget with our finances but also our time, for many different reasons. For some its for the sake of approval, for others its is to advance their careers, and the list goes on but all these things are temporary and there will come a time when we will have to answer for how we used the time that had been given to us. And on that day what will our response be? Will we point to all the wonderful things we’ve done for God? What if those things were not the things He was asking of us? You are right in those things there is nothing wrong with them individually but when you accumulate them like trophies and use them to guard your heart from the risk of having to step out in faith in order to follow the unseen you miss out on all that God had planned for your life and our electronic pocket calendars aided us in ignoring God’s call.