When You Haven't Had Time for God

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READ: Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.—Luke 6:12  

REFLECT: My friend Martha was telling why her six-year-old son wanted to give up piano lessons so soon after he'd started. "He said he just doesn't have time to practice every day."

"How long did his teacher ask him to practice?" I asked.

"Fifteen minutes!"

We laughed at the idea of a little boy too busy to practice the piano a mere fifteen minutes a day. What on earth could he have to do that was so important?

But later I began to wonder. Does God also laugh—but sadly—at me when I think I don't have fifteen minutes to give to Him every day? What else do I have to do that is so important?

—Patricia Houck Sprinkle

PRAY: Father, nothing I need to do is more important than spending time with You. Please make it something in my heart that I want to do more than anything else, not something I have to do.

DO: Pick up your Bible, use your concordance and find a passage that expresses your love for God in a meaningful way.

This article is excerpted from Time Out for the Spirit: Two-Minute Quiet Times for Times That Aren't Quiet.  Try a free 30 day in-home preview of this book.