STOP! GOD WANTS MORE THAN A MINUTE
“…I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my LORD….”
(PHILIPPIANS 3:8)
A thousand distractions would woo us away from thoughts of God, but if we are wise we will sternly put them from us and make room for the King—and take time to entertain Him!

Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience. And such experience requires a whole life devoted to it and plenty of time spent at the holy task of cultivating God.

God can be known satisfactorily only as we devote time to Him.

Without meaning to do it we have written our serious fault into our book titles and gospel songs.

“A little talk with Jesus,” we sing, and we call our books “God’s Minute,” or something else as revealing.

The Christian who is satisfied to give God His “minute” and to have “a little talk with Jesus” is the same one who shows up at the evangelistic service weeping over his retarded spiritual growth and begging the evangelist to show him the way out of his difficulty!

Some things may be neglected with but little loss to the spiritual life, but to neglect communion with God is to hurt ourselves where we cannot afford it.

God will respond to our efforts to know Him. The Bible tells us how; it is altogether a matter of how much determination we bring to the holy task!

A. W. Tozer