Don’t have time for____________
John 12:25-26 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.
Henry Blackaby says in the Experiencing God study that, “People that struggle to spend time with God don’t have a scheduling problem, they have a love problem.” They simply don’t love God enough to put him at the top of their priority list. When you have fallen in love with someone, their is never a need to pencil them into your schedule; they are at the top of your list, and your to-do list falls below them at the heading. Everything in this world, in this sin filled world, teaches success bred from selfishness. Nothing matters in life more than whatever you want in life. Nothing will get done unless you do it; nothing will come back to you unless you do the tasks at hand; nothing will come to those that don’t put 110% of their life into something. This top priority could be work or play; we have many idols that take our hearts and focus off God. We may simply not love Him enough to have the drive to pursue him enough to get to know him better.
Jesus was setting the example of a servants heart in this passage in John. He was showing us what it is, what it means to God, to have a heart that thinks first of others; not what we get in return from anything. John 13:15 “For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you. Jesus lived his life for the purpose we are celebrating this week; He came to give his life so that we might have eternal life; he lived and died sacrificially. Can you imagine how God smiles down on you when he knows the true motive of your heart when you do a complete sacrificial, selfless act, expecting nothing in return? He sees your true heart; he sees Christ in you; he sees you transformed into the image of his Son when you put the needs of another before your own.
The closer you draw to God, the more you will be like Christ. The more you are like Christ the more you will live a selfless life, seeking to point others to Jesus. Things that once matter so much in this life, will not carry the weight they once did. Things that were high on your priority list, are now maybe not even on the list. Careers turn into J.O.B.S. All that money and time you put into your sports or hobbies that turned into idols, are now just good recreational fun. All those times you didn’t have for God, now you don’t have time for them.
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