Know this: God is God, and God, God.
He made us; we didn’t make him.

Psalm 100:3

Bam.

As stated here on many occasions I am not a morning person. I know. Shocker. I don’t get up early and cook a big breakfast (or eat a bowl of cereal for that matter) and go for a morning workout. It’s just not in me. I get up just early enough to get ready, grab a SlimFast and leave. I don’t even use the snooze button because it would just wake me up earlier than I need to be awake.

Needless to say I have never been good at getting up in the morning before everything and having what my Baptist church growing up called a “quiet time”. For those of you that don’t know, a quiet time is time spent reading the Bible, praying, etc. But for me the quiet time was always too quiet of a time and I ended up back asleep because I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I don’t want to neglect spending time with my God so I had to adjust. So for me my time with God or quiet time or (if you really wanna go back to my Baptist roots) vespers (which I just looked up and apparently Camp Hudgens was wrong because vespers is an evening prayer service in Catholicism…punks…they just wanted us to wake up early) has always been a night thing. I am awake. I can focus. I can think. I can write. I can read. Those are already difficult things for me to do anyway, so I capitalize on the time my body and brain agrees the most.

Right now I am reading through Paul’s letters to the churches. Of course this baby thing is making that a bit more difficult too what with the being tired at 7 PM because I didn’t sleep the night before so I am having to adjust again. But I am curious about how the rest of the world does their time.

What do you do? What do you read? When works the best for you? What keeps you focused? What keeps you disciplined?

How often do you find yourself living knowing that God is real and out there but as if He is just the Man Upstairs.  He is out there but you shouldn’t bother Him with your problems.  Life sucks.  Hard times have hit.  Stress is piling up.  Worries are keeping you awake at night.  Too bad God is out there but doesn’t really concern Himself with the small stuff.

I know I live like this too often.  I forget that God is there for all my issues.  The relationship He wants from me is a personal one and not just knowledge based.  If I don’t go to Him with the small things in my life am I really trusting Him with everything?  Nope.  He wants me to trust Him with everything.  Through Jesus He made our problems personal to make it all right.

God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all.

Romans 8:3

I don’t like living like God is just up there for big things.  I don’t like living like He isn’t always a personal God.  I gotta remember that He wants to hear my small stuff.  He wants me to trust Him with all my life.

Remember He wants all of you, too.  He is your personal God as well.  Let Him be.