Simplifying Our Lives
29 June 09
I wonder, what did you get up to at the weekend?
This weekend I spent my Friday evening going to the cinema, Saturday I spend all day in Oxford shopping, in the evening I attended a bbq and then Sunday I was at my local Church, and spending time with the family. From the whole of that weekend I think I spent a poor half an hour with God each day. Looking back now, seeing all that he does for me I could have spent a bit more of my time drawing close to my saviour and seeking him and thanking him.
I was challenged by what Wang Mingdao wrote in the Underground Magazine, which is why I wanted to challenge you guys who read our blogs. Wang spent 23 years of his life in prison for his faith. A man who was a preacher, a well known evalngelist and an author, deprived of everything he had ever owned, including his bible, pen and paper. For most of the years he had his food pushed through a tiny hatch with nothing but his own company. He wrote,
“Nothing to do except get to know God. And for 20 years that was the greatest relationship I have ever known”
He continued with this challenge for the Western Christians: “You have no time for God. You need to build yourselves a cell so you do for yourself what persecution did for me- simplify your life and know God.”
I was changed when I read this and it’s really opened my eyes to desire to spend more time with Christ. I find my self busying my life with all that I have to do and achieve yet forgetting that I am starving my self of Christ in my life. I need to simplify my life and get to know God and I wonder do you need to do the same?