“There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present. Hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will.”
– Grenville Kleiser

I was sitting here this morning realizing that I’ve had a bit of a writer’s block when it comes to devotions for the last little bit. More likely it is reflected in my need to just have a more dedicated quiet time in the morning. A time when I intentionally block out other things. Once the day gets rolling it is even more difficult for me to stop and spend time with Him. Not that I don’t want to, but the moment of the tyranny just gets going and excuse after excuse creeps in. That wasn’t why the words above jumped out at me, but as I re-read them now, they seem quite applicable.

The only time I have to spend with Him is RIGHT NOW! It is easy for me to forget that, and think that I will spend time with Him in an hour or so, or later tonight, or tomorrow morning. It sounds silly, but I may never have thought of “putting things off” in terms of my time with Him. I mean I think “oh, I need to tell so-and-so this” or do that for so-and-so, but I will do it later. But I really don’t think I have ever thought, “this could be my last conversation with God, or my last prayer.” Wow! What power is there in my realization that if I take 2 minutes with Him right now, that that might be the last time I have today? Not that I might die, but that the day could spin out of control. Satan in the background chuckling at the stuff I allow to take my time away from Him.

My prayer life isn’t about praying to God when it is convenient to me. It is about praying to God right now. Praying to Him without ceasing. If I could do anything else with next few moments, what is going to matter for all eternity? Probably not that email that I’m drafting, or that logo idea fluttering around in my head.