Constant Contact, Friday, August 6, 2010

Reading: Psalm 16:7-9, 7 I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.  8 I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. 9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure,

The time of the day that I struggle with the most doing what I need to do is at night. All day long, I’ve been doing what I need or have to do. After the kids go to bed and everything settles down, the last thing I want to do is do something that, I feel like, I have to do. Unfortunately, and much to my chagrin, I look at spending time with God during that time as a “have to”. It just seems easier to turn on the TV and “veg out”. I’ve heard people and statistics say that your mind does not work at all while you’re watching TV… and, ya know what? When I reach that time of the day, I’m really happy to participate in something that does not make my mind do anything at all. But, my ever loving, ever faithful and ever caring God wants and deserves a better relationship than that. If I’m considering my relationship with Him, at any point, as a “have to”, there’s something wrong; because, if a good friend of mine were to call, I wouldn’t be thinking that was a “have to” to talk to him.

I believe these verses indicate part of the reason why David was called, “A man after God’s own heart”. He was in constant contact. It was never a “have to”, it was a “get to” be in constant contact with my Father and almighty God. May we have a desperate desire to have a relationship with God that is in constant contact. May we always “set the Lord before” us, all throughout the day. “Even at night my heart [will] instruct me.”

How can you be in constant contact with the Lord throughout the day?


How can you set the Lord always before you today?


Even when you’re tired at the end of the day, how can you include God in it? (if you do, I think you’ll be surprised at how it will, as David said, bring your

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How were you able to be in constant contact with God today?


How were you able to keep Him before you at all times throughout the day?