Duty Or Desire?

We had a good group Wednesday night. We talked about Pastor LaRell’s message from Sunday which was about” More Being Less and Less Being More,” the message was incredible. Anyway, we started talking about spending time with the Lord and how you will make time to do whatever is important to you. I do make time to spend with the Lord, but today I realized that I do this mostly out of duty or discipline, instead of the Lord being my delight. As I was made aware of this today, I started feeling the Lord’s sweet presence.   Really not only is the Lord slighted when I do this, but I am slighted too. I don’t get as much out of my time with him because I am fulfilling a spiritual obligation (religion), instead of getting fresh bread from him for today. The Lord just helped me to see I can do so much more with him. Not only can I do so much more, but I am doing what is important-what is on his heart, which is the only thing that really matters. Do I really want to live my life or even today, any other way? No, I do not. This is the only way to live really. He gives fresh stuff for today-each morning. I just don’t always take it off the altar daily and then by the time I do, sometimes it is stale. When something is stale, it doesn’t taste good. So if I am eating stale stuff, what am I giving out-nothing sweet tasting or good. I want to do better, but not only that- I want to spend time with the Lord because I love him and I need him and I cannot live without him.