Cheating On God

 

Are You Cheating On God?

God's Word says that we are not to put any form of gods or idols before Him. We are to always seek and glorify Him first in all we say and do.  For if what we say and do does not glorify Him, we need not say or do it.  To do otherwise would be an act of cheating on God!

True story: prior to my recent divorce, I was in a hopeless and broken marriage. I was sincerely laying everything before God because I wanted a miracle to happen in our relationship. In my brokenness, it was easy to surrender my all to Him because I wanted something from Him. I was determined in my mission to cross my ”t’s” and dot my “i's”, but once my marriage was over, I found my relationship with God beginning to slip. I began to creep and cheat on God by consuming His time with "things" that would keep my mind off the disappointment of my failed marriage. My already busy schedule got busier and at first, I wasn’t using that as an excuse to hinder my relationship with God but after a while it did.

For example, to have one-on-one time with God, I would sacrifice my sleep every morning to pray, study the Word and meditate on Jesus before I corporately joined the 6am prayer line.  My cheating first started when I began to ignore my 4:45 a.m. alarms. Every time I snoozed or canceled that alarm, I was satisfying my own desire to choose sleep over God.  I was cheating!
My studies as a Social Work major are often times overwhelming. My evening routine included me spending some devotional time with God before hitting the books.  However, my cheating continued when I chose to only do schoolwork and exclude my devotional time with God.

I absolutely love being a grandmother! I get so much joy being with my grandkids doing all sorts of silly and fun things with them.  Sometimes these "things" we do can go on for several hours and by the time we're done, I'm too pooped and worn out to do God or anything else for that matter.  Please don't get me wrong, I am not suggesting that snoozing a little or furthering your education or loving your family is wrong. God forbid! What I am saying is that if what you do from day to day happens before you do God, then you, as I, are guilty of cheating on God.

Let us pray…Dear God, please forgive us for not operating in the purpose you created us for continuous honor, glory and praise to you first, before we do anything or anyone else.  Please reveal to us the errors of our ways so we may nip our "cheating" ways at the bud.  Help us to be obedient to Your Word to “seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things (rest, education, family, money, etc, etc, etc) shall be added unto us”.  In Jesus' precious name we pray, Amen.

I Am her - Debbie Wallace