"Love the Lord your God with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength. This is the first and greatest commandment." Matthew 22: 37-38. We all have heard this, and some of us may even have it memorized, but who really lives it? If we take the Bible at face value, which I try to, I fail miserably at this. Loving God with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength means that we have to give him everything, including our time and devotion.
Quiet time. This is one of the most contradictory things that Christians try to participate in. The purpose of a quiet time is to spend our time reading, and praying to the God of the universe. But we usually try to give the minimum amount of time we can so that it won't effect the rest of our day. We don't give him as much time as we can. And this is another misunderstanding. Christians don't HAVE to be sitting in a room by themselves to be loving God and talking to him. In Corinthians, Paul talks about doing everything for the glory of God. Spending time with God can be as simple as thanking him for giving us another day to live, or asking him for help on a school assignment, or during work, or out on a run when we are starting to get tired. God knows that he is glorious. He doesn't need US to tell HIM. We NEED to tell Him that he deserves everything to remind us every day that he is the most important, and that despite what the world says, we can make time for Him at any point during our day. If we can't do this, we end up living as though He isn't there, and that causes us to disobey him. To love him with everything we have means we have to put forth the effort that we do when we run, or probably even more!
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