Harder to spend time with God when all is good!

I found this truth in struggling for quiet time with God!
Whenever trials and problems comes my way, I will always have time to spend with God! However when times are good, I always have problems looking for time with God!

I know God isn't just someone you can call to come and go as and when you like!

I KNOW THIS!
But knowing this and doing something about it is 2 different things!

I do always give glory to God and praise Him for all his blessing and grace in my life. But somehow I know this is not enough!

SO how do I force myself to have more urgency in spending time with Him?!?

?????? I don't' know!


Anyway my QT reading today is....

Genesis 17:15-22 (New International Version)
15 God also said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. 16 I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
17 Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, "Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?" 18 And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!"
19 Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. [a] I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year." 22 When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him

The only thing that jumps out at me when reading this was......Ishmael did not seem to be part of God's plan at first. In fact Ishmael came as a result of Sarah and Abraham's lack of faith from God! Yet God said that He will "surely bless him" as well!!!
Wow how wonderful is God's grace for us!! It seem limitless!! But I know better that to tempt God in this area!! I know I need to fear and give reverence to Him!

I KNOW THIS!!
But knowing this and doing something about it are 2 different things!!

ARGH!!!

His mercy is new every morning!

Yesterday, my fiancee face a big problem. Very massive!!
Made me realise how insignificant everything else is when you face a huge problem with what is really important!

Needless to say she was very scared and shaken up!

I have not really got down to pray and read the bible until yesterday when this thing happen!

How lousy Christian I am. Going to God only at my time of need!

Funnie thing is that a saying just pop into my head a couple of weeks ago and it still did not leave me.

The saying is" it is not really trusting in God when you come into a situation where you have no choice but to trust in God!"

Well behold what happen! I am in a situation where I have no choice but to trust in God! Because the only way my finacee can get out of this problem is to trust in God!

But nonetheless I prayed earnestly yesterday and this morning! And the verse I read in the Daily bread did gave me some comfort.

Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s. —2 Chronicles 20:15

I shared this with my financee. Hope it will comfort her too!
It is funnie how only during times of trouble that we turn to God!

Thank God his mercy is so great! Or else I would be in so much trouble too!!