A Moment's Peace

After a long week, month, year at my job, I find myself relaxing at one of the most popular places to sit--Starbucks.  This is definitely a rare occasion.  My husband loves me for sure!  He has had all three kids today while I've been at work, and he offered to take them tonight so I could have my moment of peace.  As I sat down to drink my chai tea latte (I hate coffee!), I could not decide what to do.  I have so many different things that I could work on that I usually don't have time for at home.  I could write, blog, read, work on school work, play a game, or just sit and people watch.  It seems like so many things to do and so little time.  As I look around this coffee house, there are at least 10-15 other people here.  Some are studying or working and others are just visiting.  It is much calmer at 8 in the evening here.  I can only imagine what it looks like 12 hours prior to this--people in a hurry to get to work or school, trying to grab that last minute caffeine rush.  I wish I liked coffee because I could use caffeine at 7 in the morning when I'm heading to work.  

It makes me wonder, though.  If I liked coffee, I could make time for it, which could be paralleled with the statement, if I liked God, I could make time for Him.  I'm sure it sounds funny to hear it as "liking" God instead of "loving" Him, but isn't that our standard for priorities?  Even the things we just like, we make time to do.  In the list of things to do during my moment's peace, I thought, I could read some scripture, which was quickly followed by, I could do that later, though. 

I suppose that we take advantage of the people and things we love the most because we think they'll always be around for us.  God has even promised that he would never forsake us, so to the bottom of the list He goes.  We tend to fill our lives and time with all of these things we like to do, but we forget what He says in Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.  When life is filled with the traffic of people, words, obligations, and wants, we need to stop and remember the One who will be exalted among the nations and the earth, and we need to exalt Him.  We need to know His power and glorify His name, and we need to make time for Him because we more than like Him.

Put down the coffee, the book, the phone, the computer and spend time with Him first because out of all those things we like, or even love, to do, He is the only one who loves us back.