What god compares to THIS!?

First of all, not relevant, but I forgot how AWESOME I am with procrastinating when it comes to papers. STILL have to write my paper. And somehow I have found so many other important and not-so-important things to do instead. From doing the dishes and laundry-definite to do things-to picking up some deodorant at CVS. Could I use the part of deodorant that is crumbling? Yes. But I have a paper to write if I don't go and pick some up. So no. I canNOT use that part of the deodorant. 

And, obviously, I wrote THREE blogs yesterday and non so far today so I obviously need to blog before I start my paper. Right?

Okay so today was church. It was awesome. First of all, I had projection today. Which means I project the words up on the screen. Pretty straight forward. What's even more awesome than that is it forces me to be at church for 75 hours. Okay fine that's an exaggeration. Five hours. Everything happens 2x. Obviously the sermon, and all the songs, and the announcements. And most days I love each and every hour. Today was one of those.

The sermon was amazing. It was from Judges and was about the generation that came after Joshua died, and how that generation really messes up big time and because they lose that meaningful knowledge and relationship with God, they end up serving other gods.

I think that it doesn't matter who you are, if you listen to a sermon about idolatry, you are affected by it. You are convicted. Unless you fall asleep or cough cough write your day's "to do" list (guilty, I'll admit it.). Because it is so freaking hard not to serve some other person or thing or idea. Okay so no, one might not be convicted because they actually worship Baal or Buddha or whatever, but I can make a long long long list of things and people that I have put before God once or more. 

Right now I'm struggling most with keeping God in first place because of work. It's new, it's exciting, sometimes just 100% stressful and rather than spending time with God in the morning (Who, really, is the only One Who can take that stress I'm feeling and do away with it like He does because He's awesome like that) I take on the burden myself and think I can make it better by getting to work that much earlier. I think God sits there on His throne and laughs a little (with love, of course) because I make this same mistake over and over.

I'll just put it out there, I used to be a quiet time champ; I'd spend like 45 minutes in the Word every morning with my mature cup of coffee and instrumental music in the background.  But that's because I "had time". And WOW I've never experienced such "overflowing" before that good year, year and a half. I experienced being saturated in God's story, in His presence, His arms. I kept thinking, "God, when is this phase going to end?" It just kept going! And because I was immersed in Him, I wanted to read nothing but good books about Him, listen to worship music constantly, and I remember my heart, I kid you not, HURTING when I caught part of some movie and the swearing was OOC.

I want to be there again.

I have been serving my work, the opinions of others and being "funny" (I can't help making you LOL sometimes but other times I try too hard), I have been serving working out...

We are spiritual beings and we WILL worship something. If it's not God it'll be something. There are no gods that can save and truly know us. On the other hand God is EXTRAVAGANT in His mercy. And He is our Savior!

I pray that my cup would start filling up again...

*Paper. DANGIT. Maybe I should eat dinner first? Or vacuum? Or iron the curtains? Well whatever I decide, God rocks.