mindset that the time was not to be wasted on trivial conversation that would neither edify us as individuals nor provide any sustenance to a Christ-centered friendship. It is important to be consistently watchful of how we spend our focused time with Christ each day, lest minutes and hours be given to mindless
We have the great privilege of meeting with Him in the secret place every single day...May these moments and hours and days with our Beloved not be wasted, but cherished...
purposefully focused. It wouldn’t have done me and Lynn much good to meet privately if I spent the whole time texting my friends or if
“spiritual activity” that profits for nothing. Lynn started chatting with the waitress Do we rattle on through our prayers with every time she came by to check on us. empty words in an attempt to cross as Thursday mornings were purposefully many people off our prayer list as focused. If I was talking, I had Lynn’s full possible, or do we wait, and pray as the attention, and vise versa. If Lynn’s Spirit leads, while letting Him speak as husband happened to call with a need or well? Do we hurriedly read through an question, she kept the conversation as entire book of the Bible just to say we short as possible. read “enough” for the day, or do we take It is difficult to build intimacy with the time to carefully study, practically Christ when we are preoccupied with a apply, and attentively meditate on bunch of little distractions. In order to stay Scripture? attentive and alert, we must be intentional to remove whatever things would tend to Copyright 2011 The Church at Ellerslie. All rights reserved. No material from this website may be copied, reproduced, or distributed without express written permission from The Church at Ellerslie.