We love to make the grand gesture towards God.
It makes us feel good about ourselves and our spiritual walk. We talk to ourselves (and possibly others) about how we long for the day when we have the opportunity to spend hours of uninterrupted time in God's presence waiting on Him.
Never going to happen!
Maybe 'never' is too strong a word. How about 'highly unlikely' or 'very infrequently'.
In my personal experience the likelihood of this sort of grand gesture actually happening is maybe a few times a year.
We prize the grand gesture over the daily discipline because it is something we can add into our minds' compendium of successful achievements.
Five minutes a day sounds too small a time to give to God. We think we will wait until we have much more free time to give Him.
Like I said because of the myriad of our daily choices .....never going to happen.
God is so gracious. He knows how frail we are.
Jesus said to Peter in the garden of Gethsemane, when He came to His disciples and found them sleeping, "What! Could you not watch with Me one hour? Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." (Matthew 26:40-41)
One hour? They couldn't be available to be with Him one hour. I'm not judging. I'm just saying.
As with the disciples so it is with us. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. The flesh would much rather use any free moment it has to scroll through whatever social media one likes, or watch or read something on an internet site, or answer vitally important correspondence with other humans.
Spending time daily with God takes discipline and our flesh would rather not, thank you very much.
So we get to choose who is going to be in charge; our flesh (mind and body) or our spirit?
God waits for us to listen to Him daily.
Will we respond to Him today?
God delights to talk to us if we would only take time to listen.
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