Digging In: Enjoying this Thing Called Quiet Time
You will never mature in your faith if you never prioritize spending time with God. It’s just that simple. Imagine an olympic athlete who only trained once a week. Not possible, right? If you find someone who demonstrates maturity as a follower of Christ, you will find someone who has carved out regular time to renew their minds. We live in a privileged day with the Bible available to us. I have multiple copies of God’s Word, and you probably do too.
One of the reasons we usually give for not taking time to focus on the Lord and spend concentrated time in His Word is the busyness of our lives. I know you’re busy. You have practice, essays, homework, chores around the house, not to mention an intense social life, facebook, and TV shows to watch. Seriously, I know you are busy. One of the beauties of camp is we get to set the schedule. In our schedule we’ve built in time to be still and quiet before the Lord with our Bibles open and pens in hand.
Please know this isn’t a time filler. We have plenty of other things we could do with this time. This is not designed to be some torture device to see if you can stay awake.
Here are a few tips to make this time useful:
- Actually read your Bible. Don’t assume you know the verses mentioned. Read. You’ll be surprised at what you notice
- Answer the questions. Obvious, right? Again this is not just buffer time to get us to something else.
- Don’t lay down. Let me give you a math equation. Not a lotta sleep (+) quiet room (+) laying on floor (+) words on a page = sleeping student.
- Write, write, write. I know writing may not be ‘your thing’ but that’s irrelevant. Writing down your thoughts, prayers, and ideas from a passage helps keep your mind engaged and your eyes open. It will help you focus, especially when you pray. This isn’t an essay contest and it’s not for anyone else. If you’ve never tried this, give it a shot.
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