Let's get together for coffee!!

Spent some time with a great friend the other day and as we were talking and sharing he shared something from a book I hadn't read in a long time titled "Ordering Your Private World" and that was meeting with God.  He shared that it hit him that he had been doing his quiet time as an assignment or because he felt he had to.  What it should be is like when he and I get together.  It was great as we talked through this!  You see if he and I set a meeting for coffee we show up it would  be very uncomfortable for either of us if we just didn't show up.  Then we got into how many times have we left God hanging cause we set an appointment with him to hang out and talk and because something came up or we just couldn't wake up we don't show up!  I will be the first to say guilty on many occasions myself!  I also as I discussed in an earlier entry tend to go to God and say Lord here is my day bless it, instead of asking Him what are you gonna do today and how can I get involved.  You see we always think that God is going to ask us to do something that will disrupt our lives.  I challenge this, I think that God wants to use us in our sphere of influence so I think He is moving all around us we just miss it so many times cause we are all caught up in everything within that looking external is hard.  It all  again comes back to living intentionally for Him!!  It is hard, not because it really is hard but because we are human and we are sinners and get distracted.  Like the dog Doug in the movie Up "Squirrel!!!!"  God knows this He knows us that is why in the Bible it says many times keep your eyes on Him don't get distracted by the squirrels.  Let's all re-focus and set our eyes on Him!  He will work in us and through us, oh and He will also be there for us when we fall on hard times ourselves.  Let Him use you!  Thanks for reading and doing life with me!!!  Talk to you soon!!