How is your spiritual maintenance?
“The cares and anxieties of the world, and distractions of the age, and the pleasure and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches, and the craving and passionate desire for other things creep in and choke and suffocate the Word, and it becomes fruitless.”
Mark 4:19 The Amplified Bible
THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
Did you know that the seemingly innocent things in your everyday life can rob and steal from your spiritual life and your walk with God? Those little innocent cares can suffocate and kill your spiritual life if you allow it? It’s been said that the United States, among other nations, has become a nation of maintenance and workaholics. And it’s true. We have so many things to maintain: our houses, our cars, our yards, our toys, our machines, our tools, our hobbies, our appearance. It’s true. We can become a maintainer of so many natural things that we don’t have any time left to maintain our own spirit! Is it time to simplify your life? What happened to the simple life? You feed your physical body at least 3 times a day (some of us many more), how many times a day do you feed your spiritual man? Most of us can’t even answer once a day! But we should be feeding the spiritual man that much more than we feed the natural man. Why? Because he will be with us for all eternity. I’ve had to learn to simplify life myself. I released or gave up or just got rid of some of the time consuming things that were in my life. Now when I’m considering something I think I need, or something new I think I need to do, I don’t just count the cost in dollars and cents. I think about how much time it will take to maintain it or to do what it is. I check to see if I can spiritually afford the time to maintain it without affecting my spiritual life. After all, when it’s all said and done and natural life comes to an end, it’s the spiritual life that I will have forever after! And nothing that I have here in this natural world will I be able to take with me. Nothing!
Second Timothy 2:4 says, “No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.” Are you in the Army of The Lord? If you’re a Christian you are supposed to be.
MY PRAYER…
Father God , I pray that You would continue to help us purge ourselves of the I and Me, and show us how to refill with more of Jesus. Help us, Lord, to lay our cares at Your feet, and to not get caught up in the things of this world. Father, You said in Your word, for us to seek first Your Kingdom and Your righteousness and then You would add all these THINGS (things of the world) unto us. Help us lord to understand truly that in our hearts and to learn to maintain our spiritual well being first and foremost. I thank You, Father, for Your perfect grace and mercy. In Jesus’ name I pray.
Amen
