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IBS 15 - Hebrews 6:12

Hebrews 6:12
“We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.”

It’s so easy to become lazy. I’m a very lazy person. Growing up, my mom would always say, “If you can watch an episode of The Office then you can open your Bible and read.” But for some reason, opening my Bible was just to much work. I never really enjoyed reading or praying. I didn’t understand how people could just sit there fully focused on the word or praying. I never got how they had patience and time taken out of their busy days to read. I had a teacher several years ago that told me he woke up at four in the morning every day to spend some solid time with Christ before going in to work. I thought that was ludicrous. Getting up, extra early, to spend time with a being that you can’t see? No thank you. 
Throughout time, I began to realize the importance of spending time with Christ. Not being lazy about opening my Bible to read what He has to say and making sure I got time spent with Him. Even if it meant waking up super early. 
I’ve seen amazing people who have astounding faith and patience. I would listen to them saying they got up early to pray and they had such a glow to them. They radiated Christ, I eventually began to get jealous of that. I started to crave that glow. I wanted to have the faith and patience, and began to spend time with my Lord. I pushed my lazy side out of the way and started praying so much more and reading my Bible more. I began to understand it and read it as the word of God instead of some big book with a bunch of rules in it. God opened my eyes to the wonders of Him. 


Application: I will make sure to do my devotions every morning before I work on homework or anything to make sure I get that time with God. Gabbi will make sure I do this. 

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