Why spend time in the bible. I am not motivated, I know I should, it pleases God…blah, blah, blah… it doesn’t motivate me. What if there was a whole other motivation.
Self image. I struggle with wanting to be liked. Wanting to be cool. What if I could be that guy that was so confident in himself that I didn’t care about what others thought. I mean the people we look at and think “that dude is cool,” or only “she is so cool.” People who are confident in themselves attract others. You can tell by the way that they act, they are not trying to hard to be liked, they are just themselves, they are comfortable with who they are. They can wear funny clothes and they end up setting trends, because they are not worried about what others think.
There is this little kids book called “You are Speacial” by Max Lucado. It is a story about a little wooden boy (Punchanello) who is always making mistakes, saying stuff that make people laugh at him, and because of that the other little wooden people give bad marks to little Punchanello. But Punchanello meets a wooden girl who has no marks, neither good nor bad, she is just who she is. When he asks the wooden girl what her secret is, the girl tells little Punchanello that she just goes and spends time with her maker. It is when they go spend time with Eli the woodworker, that he tells them that he is proud of them, that they are beautiful, and that the woodworker made them just as they are, and he doesn’t make mistakes.
I spend time in the word to hear God’s words to me. That I may be confident in who God made me. Psalm 139 talks about how God has made us and God doesn’t make mistakes. The more I hear God’s truth about me, I don’t need to believe the lies that others say to me, or even the lies that I think about myself. I can then be confident, not because I have some special talent, or because I look a certain way, or because I hang out with a certain crowd, but because God made me, and He loves me no matter what, and I have purpose because God made me unlike anyone else in the World with a purpose unlike any other in the world.
So spend time with God, not to earn His approval, because He already loves you, He died to prove that to you. Spend time with Him to say thanks, and to hear about His love and purpose for your life.
