2 posts tagged “bible”

119:37 Turn my eyes away from what is worthless! Revive me with your word!

The last week or so, it really has been "reviving" to my soul to somehow be able to wake up every morning on time to get time with God. So often my eyes are on what is "worthless" rather than on God and His Word.

I find it interesting that the prayer is for God to turn my eyes. How does one turn someone else's eyes? I wouldn't say the prayer here is for God to remote-control my eyes. Rather the way I get someone to change what they're looking at is by presenting something better to look at instead.

And this is my prayer: O God, "unveil Thy beauty to my sight that I might love Thee more."

Well, here's my first post. Before I make this blog public, I'm going to want to see if I'm able to keep this going for a while. My idea is to use this as a way to organize my thoughts relating to my walk with God, as well as a motivator to actually think about my walk with God. :)

So here's my starter post just to get things going.

My relationship with God has gone through a major change over the past 3-5 years, naturally brought on by the changes in my life - getting married, starting to work full time, having a son. As a result I still feel like I'm trying to catch my bearings on exactly what my relationship with God is to even look like nowadays. It used to be so simple: Have a Quiet Time every morning with my One Year Bible and my list of people to pray for. All things where I was actively thinking about God, or talking to God.

Now, it's all become a little more hazy - having to get up early to go to work is making it very tough to really get the time I want and need with God with an alert mind in the morning. When I get home from work, all that's left is the evening, and Stephi and Joshua need a good bit of it.

My walk with God has become much less a thing of my mind and my thoughts and much more down-to-earth. Writing a solution to a problem at work, coded in Java, is what God is wanting me to do at that point, and that's great. Getting along with the guys at work, spending time with Joshua, spending time with Stephi - all these things are done without actively thinking about God, but they are becoming a part of my relationship with God. And that's a good thing!

This morning, Dave Lennander encouraged me to use those every day experiences as a motivation to see what God is trying to tell me and do in my life, to start with them when I spend time with God, rather than starting the same way I usually do. I think that's a great idea, and it's part of the reason I'm starting this blog, apart from my old one.