A Daily Battle

“A daily battle is being fought for our attention and our devotion.”

This was written in my study today in Becoming More, and it really stirred my little heart.

I’ve always struggled with spending time in God’s word daily. I would do it for a while, and then it would start to feel obligatory. So I would stop. But the thing is, a DAILY battle is being fought for my attention. And my devotion. So if I am not DAILY in God’s word, or at least meeting with God in prayer, He has lost for that day. And that seems wrong to me.

I will spend my day doing a whole lot of things – and those things aren’t bad – but when zero of my attention has gone to God, something is wrong.

One woman put it the struggle this way, “the duty of devotion rather than the desire: I still feel that it’s important to spend that time with God daily. Sometimes the emotions are just not there, but we still need to obey and do it. I do not always feel giddy-in-love with my husband, but I commit to loving him and acting respectfully [daily]. It’s a decision to love.”