Bible Challenge

Sometimes you don’t realize how addicted you are to something until it is gone or you just don’t have access to it.  I am like that with caffeine.  I had no idea how addicted I was to my morning coffee until I decided that I wasn’t going to drink it one morning.  The result wasn’t earth shattering or surprising, but I was dragging.   I was not alert or ready to take on the day at all.  I was yawning and falling asleep during conversations with friends that I hadn’t seen in a long time.  It actually took me a few minutes to put my finger on why I was so incredibly out of it!

I really enjoy sitting down with my one (or 4) cups of coffee in the mornings.  I wish I could say that I got peace and quiet while drinking them, but it is usually a sip here, a sip there.  Lately, with the weather so hot- I have started making iced coffee…  yum!  Which I actually can drink much faster too – hahaha. 

Anyway – have you ever forgotten to read the Bible in the morning?  Monday morning I didn’t forget to read the devotional that I do in the morning, but I didn’t take it the one step farther that I usually do and go and write my blog and ensure that I get into the word.  I had one pre-written and had it set to publish.  I thought, hey, that way I can stay a day ahead and the next one will publish in the morning.  

No dice- I didn’t do it because I knew that I had that buffer.  I didn’t want to put a damper on my already busy day and kept pushing it off.  Well by pushing it off I DID put a damper on my day.  All day long, at the dentist, through my kid free date with my husband, I sat there and thought, I need to get into my brain and into time with God.  I have a problem with just reading something and then I don’t take the time to sit and actually apply it to my life.  I sit there and am like- that is so true…  ooppps- I have to go do this or that…. 

My hope and dream is that I get addicted to the Bible.  That if and when I accidentally or purposefully neglect it for a day, my whole body feels it.  I know that I blog about this a lot- but I think that it is important.  If I could just get the importance through my thick head and into my conscious, it would be better.  It is so easy to sit here and write the words and say do this and that – do as I say and not as I do….  So my challenge to us all today is to pick up the Bible – open it up and see what God has in store for us today that way.  I am going to Romans 8 – that is where I opened it and it is pretty pink with all the highlighter that I used when I was younger.  What did you choose?