How important is prayer in your life? Suppose I asked it another way. How important is it for your to talk with your spouse, your children, your boy/girlfriend, your loved ones on a daily basis? If you have not talked with them in a while, what begins to happen? How do you begin to feel?
I am constantly asking myself this question because I am constantly finding that my prayer life, my conversational life with God is not what it should be. I am convicted and challenged often that I need to be spending more time in prayer than in doing anything else. I am ashamed that I allow the single most important relationship in my life to suffer before giving up my other "priorities."
Why is this? Why do I allow my life to be so distracted by other things? I find this with my wife and children from time to time as well. I push them aside to do other things. My wife just asked me the other day, when I kept putting my oldest son off in order to do menial things around the house, "In light of eternity, what is more important; spending time with your son, or doing house work?" At the time, I was so frustrated and irritated at not getting done what I felt I should get done, that I did not want to hear it. Yet, the reality is, she was right. Spending time with my son was far more important at that moment than cleaning the junk off my stairs.
The same is true of spending time with God. Much, if not all of life, is less important that spending intimate, valuable time with God. I have to pray for forgiveness so often for allowing idols to crop up in my life that steal my attention away from God and keep me from spending time with Him. This is one of Satan's greatest tools...get us distracted by everything but God. The less time we spend with God, the more he wins the victory and the meal he dilutes and compromises the church.
Where are your priorities? Mine, are noticeably not on God as much as they should be.
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