What do I study?

What do I study?

As much as I want to say I study God, most of the time I find that to be untrue. I find myself focusing on other things that can only tear me down and things that I know I can never be satisfied with. I study these things even when in the back of my mind I know I am only harming myself. If we look around us anywhere else, we are told that it is ok. It has become so easy for me to look anywhere around me in this world as justify my actions and thought. From TV shows to magazines to even things people can say, they show worship of a self-centered image obsessed being, and I’ve learned the hard way that nothing about this can ever satisfy me. 

When I read Steff’s blog, I was shown that this is not just with images, but with everything. When we spend so much time on something, we begin to worship whatever that is. But when we let our minds dwell on the truth, the good and the right and the just, then everything else seems less demanding. I don’t have to live up to the standards of this world, because we were not made to be that. We were meant for a relationship with Jesus and so often I find myself thinking things that separate us. When we study the truth and study the bible and His heart, I am reminded that I am His and nothing that I can do or look like will ever change that. 

If the condition of our hearts depends on what spend time with, what we worship, then when we study the truth, our hearts can be molded into what God intended them to be. Steff’s prayer spoke so close to my heart. I pray I can be reminded daily that He is the most important thing, and studying him is more important than any other thing I can worship with my time.