Don't be lazy, Gamers!

Good Morning!
It's great to see you today!! I hope you are settling in after our "holiday hiatus"!! Time to get back to work and studying the Word together!!!

We are in Proverbs 6, verses 9-11. We will be looking at The Message (MSG) version today:

9- So how long are you going to laze around doing nothing? How long before you get out of bed?

10- A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy — do you know what comes next?

11- Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life, poverty your permanent houseguest!

We are picking up from yesterday's post and discussing how the Word of God must be primary in our lives and to our faith. As it says in Romans 10:17: "faith comes by hearing; and hearing by the Word of God".

Soooo, this morning I was trying to steal a few extra minutes of sleep and I decide to start reading chapter 6 on my Blackberry while still lying down. LOL......then I come upon verses 9-11!!! "So how long are you going to laze around and do nothing - how long before you get out of bed??"..........I JUMPED OUT OF BED!! This got me to thinking -- if we treat the Word of God as a "I'll get to it later" thing, or "I can be casual" and laze in bed during quiet time -- we are not treating the Word as primary!!! "A nap here, a nap there"....."I'll read the word a little later" -- at lunch -- then we make phones calls instead...! (you get the idea) Before we know it, a little "slumber" a little putting the Word off even more; and we start to become "biblically illiterate" and miss out on the blessings and possibilities!!!

There is a principle involving discipline we as Gamers need to inject into our lives: we either suffer a little "pain of discipline" -- getting up earlier to study and spend time with God (A SPECIFIC TIME), or suffer the larger, more damaging "pain of regret" -- because we have interfered with our "faith by hearing" and miss out on the possibilities!!

The Bible is a book of possibilities, folks! It is full of stories of what God can do when someone decides to hear God and have faith that He can do anything!! "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God......."

This is a discipline we HAVE to build into our lives: the discipline to "hear" God, everyday -- by His Word!

MAKE IT a great day, Gamers!!