What if I don't succeed in spending five minutes listening to God each day?

 What if I don't succeed in spending five minutes listening to God each day?

I know this might come as a bit of a shock, but you will join the hundred percent of everyone else who also finds this challenging!

We often look at life in the wrong way. Half empty as opposed to half full. I should know. I have spent most of my life seeing it this way, but I am trying to change.

I'm the sort of person who makes a plan C just in case plan A or plan B don't work. I have also been known to travel with my "apocalypse" backpack instead of a hand bag, filled with all sorts of things I might need. Just in case things don't go well or don't work out or fail or be half empty....

Anyway getting back to my point, is it better to have tried and not totally succeeded than to not try at all? Someone famous in history said something like that concerning love.

I think it is and I know God definitely thinks it is, because even if you spend one five minutes listening to Him that is better than never doing it, and hopefully it will trigger some awareness of how much God desires to communicate with us, if only we would take time to listen to Him.

This is a radical journey to begin, and even more radical to continue in, but it is more accurately a definition of what it means to be in relationship with God.

We can be smug about the fact that we have "relationship rather than religion", but it is a very one sided relationship if we never actively listen to God's voice. Try a human relationship the way we can be in our communication towards God, and see how long that lasts without any listening from our side.

Yes we have the Bible, which is God's Word to us, and is of vital and supreme importance in our lives. His Holy Spirit also desires to speak to us, if we will listen.

Don't give up.

Spend five minutes with God today.