God has been apprehending me about my WHOLE life lately. Most of us know God wants us to walk in light and love Him. How does that work out in your daily life though? God has been checking me on the way I spend every aspect of my life. Think about this…… Time, money, words, thoughts and actions are the main areas and aspects of your daily life. They are spent every day, and there are no real refunds.

None of us want to waste our life away. Seconds lead to minutes. Those minutes will turn into hours, which turn around and add up to days. Days will turn into years, and you don’t have many of those in a lifetime.  The key to not wasting your whole life away is using the minutes and hours that you have wisely. What does God deem as a wisely spent life?  Well, first you must ask yourself one question….What is God’s ultimate plan for my life? ….. He wants to form Christ in you.  He wants you to love like He loves, give like He gives, and live like He lived. Christ came for two reasons. He came to show us the way to the Father (show us how to love the Father and become the way to the Father) and He came to be a servant.  What do you want God to say about you at the judgment seat of Christ? I can ask you that same question several different ways.  What do you want to have said about you at the end of your life? What do you want to accomplish by the end of your life?  What would you die for?  These are all the same questions stated different ways.  Does your purpose and focus for your life have anything to do with these two things that Jesus came to do?  If you can get your purpose figured out then you can start to spend the minutes and hours of your day working toward that.  This takes form in several different ways, but I will say that prayer and reading the Word are important ways to know the Father and to understand Him.  A lot of Christians are spiritual couch potatoes and never grow in the knowledge of God.  How do you spend your waking hours on this Earth?  If you think you would die for something, then you must first ask yourself if you are even living for it.

God is very interested in the way you spend your finances. Jesus said that where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.  I think giving to the kingdom and a person in need is like Christianity 101.  If God has blessed you with finances and you refuse to give any back to Him, I question your thankfulness.  Paul even says that the same way that the Old Testament priests were fed by the tithes given to God, we should also help support those who sow spiritually into us.  I have set aside a certain percent of what I make now, and I have set a goal for my life to give a bigger portion of what I make to the Kingdom and the poor in the future.  I will get to this goal by not living selfishly and not adding bills to my life, such as buying the newest useless toys.  I don’t believe I am here to see how nice a life I can lead here on this Earth.  I make finances to help feed my family and help finance the furthering of the Kingdom of God as well as helping those in need.

The things that you take in through your eyes and ears will also be the center of your thought life. Your thought life will come out in your words and actions.  If you take in evil through music and movies, then evil will be on your mind.  Bondage to a sin is usually the outcome of this.  Jesus came to give life and give life more abundantly.  Set your eyes on the scripture to find out how He loves, forgives, cares, protects, looks, feels and hates.  Then, set your heart on these things, pray over them, and fast over them.  God is alive and if you gaze at Him, reach for Him, talk to Him, be with Him, and just love Him with your whole heart, then your words, thoughts, and actions will start to look like His.

If you make Him the center of your life, then everything else will fall into place.  He loves you and wants what is best for you, and the best thing for you is that you start to be like Him, inside and out.