What's a little inconvenience?

This past week, we moved houses. If any of you have ever moved houses, you know how hectic it can get. all the packing, ensuring that everything is safe and secure, and the unpacking that follows, making sure that you have all you need in place so you can be comfortable in your new home. We can all agree that moving takes a toll on us and affects so much for those few days before settling into the new home.

One of the biggest things that is affected by a move is routine. When you're settled in one place, most of the time you have a routine down. It may not be physically written down, and you may not have intentionally set out to do things that way, but most of us fall into some sort of routine that helps us get more done, efficiently and on time (mostly).

It's in this light that I find myself writing this, this fine morning. I had my routine down at our previous home, including my time for Bible reading, devotion, and prayer. That time worked for me even though the time was just "as soon as I wake up" and I needed it to happen then, EVERY DAY. What is particularly interesting is that my friend and I recently had a conversation about not needing to set a particular time to spend with God because he is our friend and we can talk to him anytime. We got into how routine is good, but it should not stop us from spending time with our friend all the time and anytime. It hasn't even been a month since this conversation, but I have found myself doing exactly what we said we shouldn't do.

My time with God since the move has sort of been put on the back bench because of the inconvenience of the move albeit (google the meaning) unintentionally. Before you start side-eyeing me for not being a 10/10 Christian, I have read the Bible, and I have said a quick prayer here and there, but as someone who is in pursuit of God, I did not spend enough time with my friend, and even when I did, it was a 0/10 hangout.

Half the time, I was distracted and thinking about how tired I was or where I was gonna put stuff when I took them out of the boxes. Let me put it this way, if my friend came to see me and half the time she was distracted, I would not feel like we spent any time together because in truth that time with me would have been spent in her head, in her thoughts.

I kept telling myself that I was distracted because I was just tired from the move and everything would go back to normal once I settled into our new home, but it hit me that I just could not stand a little inconvenience. It's a pattern; this is not even the first time this has happened. Small small inconvenience, and I just checked out. I really love for things to go the way that I would have planned them in my head, but life seldom (GOOGLE) works like that. 

Now that I'm done talking about myself, I want you to think of all the times that you didn't read your Bible or pray because it was inconvenient. It just didn't work with your schedule, right? Too tired and too busy? We've all been there, and I will hold your hand as I say this: it's not okay! None of your "important" relationships suffer because of a little inconvenience coz you always find a way to work around all inconveniences.

So tell me why your relationship with your Heavenly Father is suffering because of small inconveniences? Don't you think you should do better? I know you know better, so why aren't you doing better with this knowledge you have? DO BETTER!