How Much Time Am I Willing to Spend with Him?

How Much Time Am I Willing to Spend with Him?

"And it was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God." Luke 6:12

"But His delight is in the law of the Lord of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night." Psalm 1:3

We live in the instant world. We are connected to the Internet instantly through our computers, air-cards, Blackberry's. We spend time on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter. We watch hours of TV, play Nintendo, Playstation, Wii. We watch the Yankees game in full. We view our favorite movies without interruption.

We eat our microwave food, get impatient if we are having to wait in line even at the grocery store. Everything is about speed: Speed reading, speed exercising. We want faster and faster Internet connections. We read books called The One Minute Manager, The One-Minute Father, The One Minute Manger, The One Minute Leader.

And now we can read The One Minute Bible. How do we ever expect to grow and mature if we relegate Him to just ONE MINUTE a day? How much time are you willing to spend with Him?

I was fascinated and convicted to read how much time the great preacher George Whitefield spent in the Word:

"There he is at five in the morning . . . . on his knees with his English Bible, his Greek New Testament and Henry's Commentary spread out before him. He reads a portion in the English, gains a fuller insight into it as he studies words and tenses in the Greek and then considers Matthew Henry's explanation of it all. Finally, there comes the unique practice that he has developed: that of 'praying over every line and word' of both the English and the Greek till the passage, in its essential message, has veritably become part of his own soul."

Wow! Talk about conviction. Does He mean enough to me that I would be willing to get up at 5:00 AM to spend time with Him? Would I be willing to pour over a verse of Scripture until in became a part of my soul?

George Whitefield's life impacted hundreds of thousands of people. His preaching with filled with power because He was intimately acquainted with the Father. Could we not spend one hour with Him? Something to think about. -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK

God's WORD for YOU: Proverbs 5; Psalm 68-69; Romans 8:1-21

Great Quote: Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees. John Wesley