Is He Obsolete In Your Life
Luke 12:30-34 Amplified Bible (AMP)
30For all the pagan world is [greedily] seeking these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31Only aim at and strive for and seek His kingdom, and all these things shall be supplied to you also. 32Do not be seized with alarm and struck with fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom! 33Sell what you possess and give donations to the poor; provide yourselves with purses and handbags that do not grow old, an unfailing and inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
We invest our time and effort into so many things. We work hard to achieve, accomplish and to become successful by so many different standards and definitions, but do we apply the same efforts and time to our relationship with God? My husband said something today, as we talked about ministering to couples and our own experiences in relationships that struck a chord. He said “when you lack spending time or applying time to a relationship it will become obsolete.” Many of us have watched people in our lives become obsolete because we stopped spending time with them or they stopped spending time with us. The fact that time can produce closeness or the lack of time can produce a distance that eventually will lead us to a place that we exist without someone or something is a startling fact. It made me think that when we are first starting a diet, we think we will never be able to give u certain things; then after dieting for a while, the longer we do without certain foods, the more we understand we can do without them, or we come to know we don’t need them.
God is that food for many of us. We have lacked spending time with Him for so long that we do everything without Him. We make our decisions based upon our own thinking, feelings and motivations. We base our living on the things that are tangible to us within this world. We allow the natural us to take over in such a large way that we begin to subtly exclude God in most things and before long; we are barely acknowledging Him weekly. We live our lives in such a way that God is no longer our source but we are the person that we rely upon most. For some of us, we have deceived ourselves into believing that as long as we throw up a Hail Mary prayer daily that God is cool with that and as long as we are saying with our mouth we are a Christian that we are still living for Him. This could not be further from the truth. I heard someone say, well God knows my heart, yes He does, He sees the very intent of your heart and what is the main focus of your heart and what is your first love, and you should too, because it is clear that what you are making time for and putting your effort into that is where your heart is. It is where our heart is that our treasures, our efforts and our investment are. It is where our heart, time and effort are that we are building up our investments; this is what has become most valuable to us, and the thing that we esteem highest to us.
Don’t be fooled, just because many of us sit in church each Sunday that does not mean that we are spending time with God, for some of us it is just a box we check off. When we spend time with God, it is not just on Sunday morning from 8:00am to 10:00am or from 10:00am to 12:00 noon. When our heart is where God is we seek after Him, He is a part of our daily lives, and we value Him in a way where He knows that He is not obsolete or that we can make it without Him. He understands that our life is not about our glory and pleasure but about His. When God is not obsolete in our live we know that every good thing comes from Him. When God is our treasure we understand that all that we are and all that we have belong to Him and we only steward it. Ask yourself, honestly how much time am I spending with God? Is He my treasure or have I allowed Him to become obsolete?
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