Now is the Time

As we journey through life, now is always the best time to make sure you are giving God your all. Now is the best time to make sure your focus is correct and pure. This goes beyond the “you never know how long you're gonna live” argument. This is about experiencing life at its best and living a God-inspired life as a witness to others. With each day being a blessing full of opportunity and growth potential, how can we pass up on even a single day?

It's an easy argument we fall into sometimes. We look around and say, while God's coming soon, it probably won't be for another year or two at least so that gives me time to focus on school, work for that promotion, or take that vacation I've always been dreaming of. Our priorities get out of whack and God takes a lower spot on our list. But our relationship with God should always be our top priority. Without Him as our number one goal, the rest just falls into chaos, stealing our time and energy away until one day God is a distant memory from your important things to do list.

To push God aside until the end is like saying, I've married the best spouse I could ever find and yet I didn't put anything into the relationship except a couple of occasions each year until the last few years of our life. Just think about all of the potential you've just passed up. Think about all of the shared joy, the intimacy lost, and the shared life experiences that could've been? Why would you risk doing that? How much more should Christ be the focus of each day?

In the end, I want to be able to say that I've grasped every moment that God presented me, that I never took a moment for granted. God's love for us causes an overflowing of blessings from His thrown and to not have your arms extended, ready to catch them, is such a waste of precious moments. As a sinful person, I know I'll miss some every now and then, but to intentionally ignore them until the final moments of life goes well beyond a “missed opportunity”. Place God at the top of your list today. Make Him the number one thing on your mind and heart as you begin this day. Dwell on Him until the final moments of consciousness disappear. Trust that He'll make it more than worth your time and effort.

- Thoughts from Psalm 61

encounter: How you might intentionally place GOD at the top of your agenda for today?