Devotions

Let me tell you a little bit about my daily routine. I get up at 6:30 and read my bible for two hours and then go to breakfast at 8:30. After a healthy breakfast of toast, eggs, a banana, and a bowl of raisin bran I start classes. I draw between every break and don’t waste a single second until 4pm when my classes are over. I go back to my dorm to get my home work done. I eat dinner at 5:30 and then draw until 7. Afterwards I go read my bible for another hour and finish any other homework that I may have. I usually get to bed by 9.

Yeah, so that was a little bit of a lie. I usually get up at 7:30 read my bible for about 20min and then proceed to do the exact opposite of just about everything I said up there. This is something that God has been putting on my heart recently. Just how hard am I seeking God? I am getting better at drawing compulsively and doing that as much as I should and I thank God for letting me be able to do that. But if God is the most important thing in this world and we are called to live as exiles in a foreign land why am I not reading his word with the same passion that I have when I draw? Is 20min+ really enough? I’m not saying there is some perfect amount of time that you should be reading and meditating in God’s word. However I think, particularly as college students, it’s easy to make our devotions that last thing on our to-do list. Even if we do it first thing in the morning it can become a let’s-get-this-thing-I-have-to-do-out-of-the-way-so-I-can-focus-on-other-stuff. We are in possession of the biography of the almighty creator of the universe, why aren’t we reading it more? Why after God has done so much for us and sacrificed His own son, are we putting him on the back burner? How do we expect to be more like Christ, be victorious against sin, and witness to others if we just do a cursory reading of a chapter or two every morning? I read through an entire novel in about a day. Why am I not pursuing God’s with as much, if not more, zeal? This is something I am working on and praying that God will give me discipline and a heart to read His word. I realize that a lot of the time our desires will not change overnight. It takes some long hard practice to make something a habit. If we get into a habit of reading the word who knows, we might surprise ourselves and actually start thirsting after it.