So, I don't usually journal on my blog. It's just always been a way for my family to keep up with my growing kids. I have my own journals that I keep, although, I am finding that things like facebook, blogging and e-mail, crowd out time for other things. . . sad to say. I enjoy journaling, and for me it has always helped to put my thoughts on paper, but other things demand my time, I end up neglecting things that are more worthwhile. I'm not sure how many times I have thought to myself, I'm just going to be done with facebook, it's a time waster for me. But then, of course, I never do it. I just keep sitting in front of the computer, like a zombie, unmotivated and amused by others life happenings. . . .sad, I know.
So today, I was listening to a message by John Piper. I have come to appreciate this part of the internet--the online resources and messages of Godly leaders. He was preaching out of John 6. I am supposed to be reading through the book of John right now, and a friend is helping me to stay accountable, but I am not staying faithful. I have hit a dry spot in my devotions, and feel refreshed to hear the Word of God preach when I feel stagnet in my reading. . .I am supposed to be in John ch. 13, and I am 7 days behind. (I digress) The message was about the phrase Jesus speaks in chapter 6, "Do not labor for the food that perishes." I don't know that I can sum up Piper's thoughts b/c although I enjoy journaling, I don't put my thoughts into words well. . .but, I will say this, I was rebuked! Humiliated. Ashamed. Challenged. Refreshed. Is Christ my treasure? What really, is most important in my life? "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
I hate that so often I am convicted by a message only to walk away and fall back into the same sins I was convicted about. Perhaps that is because I am too busy laboring. Too preoccupied with the "doing." Labor Not!
"When we believe, (truly believe), a new treasure dominates our hearts, JESUS --and that changes everything!" (J. Piper)
