TV Or GOD

Monday, June 18, 2007

TV or God....

I have been fasting television since Memorial Day and WOW what a difference it has had on my relationship with the Lord. At first I thought it would be ok if I watched the NBA finals since my hometown was in it, and I really really wanted to watch it, but I felt the Lord ask me to sacrifice that for Him. I had gotten a verse from Luke from someone that was about the man telling Jesus he wanted to follow him and Jesus said ok let's go and the guy said "but first let me do this other stuff first..." (Lisa paraphrase there) and I was like man I don't ever want anything to be more important to me than God. Sooo, I immediately sought the Lord on this and He showed me that when I do things sometimes I say I will give up TV for example, but I add...except for the NBA finals in this case. So I didn't watch the NBA finals which ended up being a blessing in disguise because who wants to see their team get beat 4 straight in a row...hehe... Anyways, since I gave up TV I have been spending extra special time with the Lord and even hearing Him so much more clearly. And as hard as it was to not watch the finals it felt 10 times better to really sacrifice something I really wanted to do rather than to sacrifice something that I just kind of liked or wanted to do- for the Lord. I never realized how maybe my "sacrifices" weren't such big sacrifices after all. So my challenge to you is step it up yo!

- Lisa Bell