Count Me In

Sometimes I let the everydayness of life carry me away to the point of neglecting my time with the Lord. Spending time in prayer and focus on Jesus and his hand print in my life.

My husband and I sat down together on the couch one day this week after he had gotten home from work. I have to admit I have been pressuring him for a little more "face time". After running out of things to say he asked, "So, what has your quiet time been like lately?" A question he has never asked me in our almost 14 years of marriage. I panicked a little. I thought maybe he had noticed.

"Why do you ask?" was my most holiest of replies. A little self conscious thinking I must have applied to much pressure for "face time" being convicted for two things at once.

I said to myself and him what most of us say. "Yeah, I need to do that." I hadn't been making that connection with God and at the moment my soul needed it. A day or so later I received an IM from a friend that asked me to pray and on top of that, requested me to read a certain scripture too. I said I would, because after all isn't that what a "good Christian" would say? The Holy Spirit had used my husband and a friend to hold me accountable. Accountable to the point that it brought me to the Lord in prayer and repentance. I started that prayer praying for someone else but ending it in seeking forgiveness for myself.

We need accountability. We need to have it and give it to others. If we are creating for ourselves comfortable relationships were nobody is challenged and no one is moving forward in our walk with the Lord than we become stagnet Christians. We live in a world were everyone goes unchallenged. The Bible says over and over again to encourage each other. Col 2:2 My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ.

We cannot serve our families as mothers on an empty tank. My purpose this week is to know Him better and encourage others to do the same with me. So, What's your quiet time been like lately?