My time or God's time?

I've known for a long time, that it is of the utmost importance to give God the very first part of your day. There is nothing that better sets you up for a successful day. I think that we have all been trained to believe that we must fit God into our lives. To many that may seem just fine, but really look at it. If we are fitting God into our lives, we are giving Him the left-overs. If you do everything else first, then God gets what is left; no way around it.

The way that we spend our time is every bit as important as the way we spend our money. We've been trained to think that our financial life is all that matters. "My time," isn't that what we call it? Does God bless a life that gives a tenth of a paycheck and nothing else? Think about this, what is a tenth of our time? Do you give God 17 hours of your time each week? What an unimaginable concept! Why? No matter how you answer, it comes down to this: if I were to do that, I would have to rearrange my whole life. Exactly!

Why are love letters so effective? Initially, it is an investment of time. The boy writes how he loves the girls eyes, her heart or that when she walks the flowers all seem to bend in her direction. It is that he takes the time, to put what is in his heart on paper. And, there is the added benefit, that she can go back and reread the letters, and remember what a sweet guy you are, when you're acting like a jerk.

Everybody understands the necessity of time when you talk about relationships with people, but why is it so hard to get the idea across when you are talking about a relationship with God? If people spent the same amount of time on their spouse as they spent on God, there is only one question: How long, before they get divorced? The problem is that most look at time with God as time lost. Let me tell you something, you only stand to gain when you give your time to God! You want the best week of your life? Give God the time that you have been keeping from Him, and see what He does with all of your time.