I was thinking earlier about how hard it’s been to get people to turn up to the youth group that I’m running in my church. It’s hard to get them to commit to a once per-week meeting. I get very disheartened when they tell me things, “once a week is too much! I don’t have the time!” …I just want to cry out and tell them…
“God should NOT be your side salad in a main meal!!!!!”
These days, I fit my other commitments around a God-framed day! How can you ever manage to keep clinging to Christ if you don’t involve Him in every aspect of your life!?
The sun is beginning to shine upon me again, my season of suffering is starting to drift away slowly and the cloud of unsettlement that covered me is actually starting to break apart… I am thankful for the season of dryness in my life because it made me realize something very important. My heart is still a bit raw with hurt, but I know I had to go through it to get to where I’m at now. I’ve never had my heartbroken before, but this was it…. and now it’s okay…. I’m getting there, I’m coping. My heartbreak was due mostly to what I thought was the loss of a very good friendship, but in hindsight, we both needed some space — but now it’s fine. I have learned from this to always be brave and courageous — God gave me a big lesson in humility… it was a lesson needed. And on the other side of it? I’m essentially okay with everything.
My message to you reading is to make God your #1, every single day of your life. Pray to Him! Even when you don’t have words, force it. FIND THE TIME. If you are reading this, thinking, “I don’t have the time to pray”, then I say, stop reading my blog, stop surfing the internet and instead turn your heart to prayer for a few short moments and if nothing else, thank Jesus for the peace that he promised you!!!
God bless,
J.
