Choices Choices Choices

We live in a dualistic world. We can have two kinds of wisdom. Earthy and spiritual.

What we sow we reap. Sow in peace, reap righteousness, "right ness" with God, OR we can choose to sow discord and reap unrighteousness.

We have a choice. Some people might say its not fair to have the burden of it on us, but it is. It might seem daunting, or hard, but that is our responsibility to perform. And we can have help. Prayer and communication with God yield His help to do these things, but drawing close to God is always going to be our decision and our action that controls it.

And we have a descion about that too. Recently I have been listening to Charles Stanely and he talks a lot about the importance of time spent with God. You can check it out here. They are clips of the In Touch radio ministry he does. He makes some good points, nd I am sure he would tell you that he is not the first to say that time with God is important, but one thing that was simple and interesting was this: you become who you hang out with the most.

And i tought back to how we used to marvel as teenagers when we would suddenly say things or act in the same ways as our friends. Just tonight my wife said "Crabcakes" which made me giggle cause its something I say from Spongbob.

So if we want to be like God, make Godly choices and percieve life in a Godly way we have to commit to spending time with God. Stanley suggests that it not even have to be a lot of time. Even just 5 minutes, but as we grow and speak with God the discipline we learn will draw us in to more time, or what you might think of as the "best" amount of time which could change from day to day. Keeping in mind that the time doesn't have to be in structured prayer or Bible reading, though those certainly could be a part of it. The time could jsut be spent in simple conversation, questions, railing, argument... all the thigns we do with friends.