A Passing Shadow

A friend's husband posted this picture on Facebook:

 

 

 As I read it, it was all too familiar.  It is what I've been thinking to myself lately.  
I've noticed I've been spending more and more time on my smartphone and my Bible actually had dust on it. I am SO ashamed by that.  
I have a Bible app on the home screen of my phone but yet I still go to Facebook and Pinterest and very rarely open up that Bible app.
So I was thinking I'm a busy mother of 3 and I do not have the time to sit down with my Bible and read it.
God knows my heart and he also knows I'm trying to take a shortcut or get out of something because it doesn't sound appealing to me.
So this morning God used my 8 month old to get me up at 4:30 in the morning!
My baby girl never wakes up in the middle of the night so I knew when she did that it was God urging me to do the things that I should have been doing all along.

I took care of the baby and put her back down for bed. Then I did the dishes, a couple loads of laundry, I wiped off the kitchen counters and cleared the table from clutter that was left the night before. When all that was done I still had 40 minutes until my husband's alarm was to ring.
I knew that if I was taking all that time to clean the house that I could have been doing during the day then surely I needed to crack open my Bible and spend some time in the word.
I found Psalm 144:4. 

 

 In this I learned that life is short. And the saying life is short, is not just a saying at all. Life really is short.  I want to make my days count.  Don't you?

Of course it feels great to know what's going on with my "friends" because I see it on Facebook (Let's get real, we aren't really all friends, are we?  Some of you, although nice to my face, are surely opposite behind my back, because I see you do it to your other friends.  I'm not foolish enough to think I am exempt from your nitpicking and negativity.) .  I don't think I was popular in school, so having a tool like Facebook helps me to feel in the loop.  That sneaky thing.  Facebook is fun, but it sure leaves a whole lot out. 

I feel inspired by searching pins and I feel accomplished when I finish projects from Pinterest.
But ya know what?  When the day comes when I get to meet Jesus, I really think He could care less about how many Pinterest projects I did, or if I knew what was going on with everyone else's life.  But what does all that matter, if I didn't take the time to save my own life?  Right now today, I can tell you, I am saved.  I think I am ready to go to  Heaven when He calls me.  But will He want me? I want to live a more upright life so that I KNOW He will be delighted with me. 

 

I am going to challenge myself to spend less time on the internet and more time in my Bible.  Less time searching pins, and more time searching the hearts of my children to firmly place Jesus within them.  When I'm gone, I'm gone.  I don't know when that day will be.  But when it is, I want to know I've done my best to prepare myself, and my family for what's next.  Heaven.

 

Are you saved?