People blame their failure to spend time in meditation and prayer and study, on "today's demanding schedule." This is suppose to explain their obsession with work. Marriages, families, spiritual life, values all suffer because of "today's demands."
This is one reason that retreats, conferences, workshops, camps, and revivals are so important. It brings people aside from their daily involvements and provides the time and focus for more important issues.
Another problem is that people actually spend their time, energy on activities that are unproductive at best and counter productive at worst. The activity does not have to be evil, in order for it to be destructive. As I often say,
"The greatest enemy of that which is best, is that which is good."
Therefore, Choose your path, don't let your path choose you.
This brings me to something I shared with Seaside Chapel yesterday. I post articles that are designed to help folks draw closer to God and to focus on spiritual concerns and to learn Biblical and doctrinal truths that can inform and transform our lives, taking us from light to light, from grace to grace, from faith to faith and from strength to strength. These articles can be used by an individual, or shared with family or friends. They are simply tools to open our hearts and minds to God and His word.
If a person takes the time to meditate on the teachings and the passages, which address the Christian's response to marriage, parenting, social inter action, finances, morality, politics, then they could see a definite development over a period of time.
James 4:8
(8) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Just trying to be helpful.
