Our Habits as Sacrifices to God--Never a Waste!

We have some new readers in the past couple weeks so I thought it might be helpful to say a word or two on what this blog is generally about. It's about developing some decent spiritual habits--praying, reading the Bible, giving God quiet moments during the day--so that we can make space in our lives to hear His voice and begin to know Him better. In daily lives that are already crowded, that's not always easy and doesn't always seem immediately successful. Here's a thought from Elisabeth Elliot that I find encouraging at times when it seems my efforts fall flat:

It is a good and necessary thing to set aside time for God in each day. The busier the day, the more indispensable is this quiet period for prayer, Bible reading, and silent listening. It often happens, however, that I find my mind so full of earthly matters that it seems I have gotten up early in vain and have wasted three-fourths of the time so dearly bought (I do love my sleep!). But I have come to believe that the act of will required to arrange time for God may be an offering to Him. As such He accepts it, and what would otherwise be "loss" to me I count as "gain" for Christ.

Let us not be "weary in well-doing," or discouraged in the pursuit of holiness. Let us, like Moses, go to the Rock of Horeb--and God says to us what He said to him, "You will find me waiting for you there" (Ex 17:6 NEB).

From Elisabeth Elliot's A Lamp For My Feet