Your Time with God

Your time with God is so sacred, so precious, so holy that when you are first developing your relationship with Christ it can seem so overwhelming and so intimidating. You may hear Christians tell you they have been waking up at 5:30 am or fasting from food for a week, or preaching the word and you may feel as if that is not for you or that you are not capable of doing that, so it may be keeping you from pursuing a relationship with Christ because all of that sounds so overwhelming. This is the thing, that is their relationship with God, not yours. It doesn't have to be like everyone else! Isaiah 64:8 says:

But now O Lord, you are our Father, we are the clay, and you are our potter, we are all the work of your hand.

This metaphor is often used in the Bible to simplify for us how God guides us, molds us, helps us, shapes us. It requires one simple thing from us as the clay, just to be at His mercy and allow Him to do the work! If you look at the process of making pottery, the clay begins shapeless and with little purpose. It's just a lump of nothing, but when the potter gets his hands on that clay, he can mold and shape it to its desired destination. The clay moves and forms with the hands of the potter. Each clay is unique and no clay will be the same! It's such as a masterful practice so intricate, so specific. God just wants His time with you to mold you! There is no format! Talk to him on your way to work or school, talk to Him before you go to bed. While you are washing dishes, listen to praise and worship instead of your favorite song. Take an extra 5 minutes when you get out of the shower to say "thank you Jesus!" Let him mold you for what He needs you to be. None of us are the same. Do not be discouraged, your relationship with our Father is unique and special!

All you people of the world, you who live on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and when a trumpet sounds, you will hear it. This is what the Lord says to me: “I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches. They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey and to the wild animals; the birds will feed on them all summer, the wild animals all winter. Isaiah 18: 3-6 NIV