Today’s devotional is from Max Lucado’s Grace for the Moment
A Life Free of Clutter
Your heart will be where your treasure is.
Matthew 6:21
The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it’s going, that knows where the source of strength is, and the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.
Being busy is not a sin. Jesus was busy. Paul was busy. Peter was busy. Nothing of significance is achieved without effort and hard work and weariness. Being busy, in and of itself, is not a sin. But being busy in an endless pursuit of things that leave us empty and hollow and broken inside–that cannot be pleasing to God.
One source of man’s weariness is the pursuit of things that can never satisfy; but which one of us has not been caught up in that pursuit at some time in our life? Our passions, possessions, and pride–these are all dead things. When we try to get life out of dead things, the result is only weariness and dissatisfaction.
Walking with the Savior
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Truer words have not been spoken. It is a pit we continuously have to keep dragging ourselves out of.
You would think we would learn but shiny objects do distract, and esteemed positions to present themselves. How I wish, I could resist and avoid the pit.
I think this is the Achilles heel of America. We have gotten so wrapped up in stuff that we have lost sight of God. Our lives these days are so full of stuff and distractions.
Stop for a minute and list off all the stuff you do in a day.
First off, I bet it is a really long list and I bet eighty percent, maybe even ninety percent of it has nothing to do with God.
Think about that.
What are we placing first in our lives. We all do it, but why.
One of the things I started doing recently was giving God my first hour each day. (I think it got me to the 90% mark, so I have more room to grow.)
But you know what I have noticed is that the days I follow through with it, life is so much more in-focus and generally better. I feel more peace. Why do we fight it so.
So my challenge to you, is to give the Lord the first hour.
(Men, there is a great program that I started (It’s free). Go to rizeup.us to find out more if you are interested.)
May Peace be with you!
