Devotional: A Little Me Time

In the night I search for you; in the morning I earnestly seek you. For only when you come to judge the earth will people learn what is right.

Isaiah 26:9 (NLT)

Do you have a routine that you do daily? Maybe you get up at a set time, spend a few minutes on the internet before you shower, then go to work. Maybe when you are preparing for bed, you hit that game up again, just to relax, or play a podcast or listen to music right before bed. We all have things that we do every day, a little bit of ME time, as part of our continuing daily routine. God wants to be our ME time. He wants you to come to him and spend time with him and you, in intimacy. No matter the time of day, we should be searching for God in all we do.

From bible.com

Or you can look at it like this, in the night, when things are dark, hard to see, things coming after you, beating you down over and over. Troubles, seemingly unending, hitting from all sides, we need to turn to God to make it through. In the morning, when things are calm, the rapids have given way to a peaceful current, and we can relax and recover, we should turn to God.

When we follow God in every step, dark or light, night or day, troubles or peace, we will show the world a peace that could never come from man made treaties. No political party could ever bring a peace so complete and good as the peace God can bring. But until God comes back to judge the earth, putting all things right again, we will have tides of night and day and we can face them all if we seek God with our whole hearts.

God, teach me to search for you at all times of the day. Teach me to put you at the center of my ME time and the center of my troubled times as well.