Some of you have heard me say it before-but that's alright here it is again:

 

The best kept secret in the Christian life is the daily Quiet Time with God!

 

By definition:  Quiet Time is the time you spend in Bible study and prayer with God.  If you are a Christian, then this needs to be an established priority in your life.  Discipleship demands this discipline!  There is no substitute for it; there is no excuse for not doing it.  You just do it!

 

I recently taught my Wednesday evening Bible study class on this subject.  I shared with them precisely how I go about it daily in my own spiritual discipline.  In fact, I wrote an instructional pamphlet entitled How To Do Bible Study and gave out more than a hundred to the class and then we practiced doing it together in an interactive session the next week.  It was really fun!  I plan to do it again soon.  I say that so you will know that this Pastor will help you learn how to do this but you must resolve in your heart to spend time with the Lord every day at an appointed time and place.  That part I cannot do for you-you must determine this and stick with it yourself.

 

I like what devotional writer A.B. Simpson says about establishing and maintaining a Quiet Time:

 

It is necessary first of all that we get into the posture of faith. This has to be done by a definite and voluntary act, and then maintained by a uniform habit. It is just the same as the planting of a tree. You must put it in the soil by a definite act, and then you must let it stay there and remain settled in the ground until the little roots have time to fix themselves and begin to draw the sustenance from the soil.

 

There are two stages: the definite planting and then the habitual absorbing of moisture and nourishment from the ground. The root fibers must rest until they reach out their spongy pores and drink in the nutriment of the earth. After the habit is established, then by a certain uniform law the plant draws its life from the ground without an effort, and it is just as natural for it to grow as it is for us to breathe.

 

Lord, help me this day to abide in Thee, and to grow into the habit of drawing all my life from Yours so that it shall be true for me, "in you I live, and move, and have my being" (Acts 17:28).

 

Amen and Amen!!

 

Devotedly your Pastor,

Ron