No Blankets Allowed

I'm sitting here once again trying to decide what to post. There are a million things running through my brain at the moment. It's always  like this. I open blogger just to find out that I really have no idea what I want to say...I guess this is me being indecisive once again. Wait! I know what I want to say! It's not particularly wordy just my random thoughts.

I've been realizing a lot lately how easy it is for one to be lazy when it comes to their walk with God. It's easy to skip reading your Bible claiming "It's just one day...". That one day suddenly becomes days. Before you know it you've gone weeks without touching your Bible except maybe for church or to move it to get at some stuff under it.
It's also easy to just skim over a few passages to say you did it. We read our Bibles witout really reading. As we read we're thinking about everything but what we're reading. I will admit that I'm guilty of this. Sometimes more often than it should be. There are times when I read my Bible and all other thoughts are pushing their way into my mind. By the time I'm finished I have no idea what I've read. That's changing and it will continue to change. It needs to.

It is just as easy to forget to pray. It's easy to either not pray at all or just mumble a small "blanket" prayer. You know, those "Dear God, thanks for all You've done for me. Please bless my friends and family. Amen." or "Dear God, I'm sorry for every sin I've committed today. Please forgive me." kind of prayers.
There's nothing exactly wrong with a prayer like the first one. It just shouldn't be the only prayer we utter. We should be taking the time to really talk to our Lord. We should be constantly in prayer about everything. We should be praying about every little thing. Our problems, fears, our hopes, our wants, our needs. Everything. (1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.)

Walking with God shouldn't be something we push to the back of our lives.  It can be easy to let life get in the way of it but we shouldn't let it. God should be, rather, needs to be the very center of our lives. We should constantly be striving to love Him and serve Him with all that we have. He died for us so we should be living for Him.

~Psalm 42:1 (NASB)
As the deer pants for the water brooks,
so my soul pants for You, O God.

Special thanks to Nate for the title =)