My days this semester have gone something like this:

Turn off my alarm 4 times, stumble out of bed just in time to take a super quick shower, sit through 4 classes or so full of content that I'm trying my very best to be interested in, go to work, go home, take a nap, do homework, go to bed, repeat.

Sarah's little world, population: 1.

And every single day I feel like something is missing. And every single day I feel exhausted and worn out.

Through some very meaningful friendships that God has put in my life and grown recently, I've realized that there is a very important chunk of time missing from this seemingly jam-packed schedule.

That's my time with Jesus. Sure, I go to church on Sundays (assuming I can drag myself out of bed after a football game) and usually one night throughout the week I'll attend some sort of devotional... but my time with Him stops there.

The other night, I decided to start back into my devotional (I do She Reads Truth online, which is amazing, BTW) and I saw that the current plan was starting in the book of Hosea.

To me, Hosea has always been kind of a sad book of the Bible. The thought of this poor guy having to go out and marry a prostitute because the Lord commanded him to and to continue chasing after her every time that she leaves him... it's always kind of put me up in arms.

She most definitely does not deserve to be chased after. He's too kind to her. Does she not see how good she's got it? Who would prefer to continue selling themselves to sin instead of staying with a kind protector who was providing all of their needs?

And as I was reading that first devotional... it hit me like a ton of bricks. That's me. I am the Gomer of this story. I am the wanderer that Jesus is continually chasing after. We all are.

That's why God commanded Hosea to marry Gomer. To show us, thousands of years later, that's us. To show us that we keep running after the things of this world, whether it be food, or celebrities, or school work, or other people, and He keeps coming out and finding us and bringing us back home, even when we don't deserve it.

"His faithfulness is greater than our sin."

And suddenly, my very busy schedule didn't seem quite so busy after all. Suddenly, I saw the choices I made every single day that allowed me to cut out my quiet time with Jesus and I saw that there was genuinely no one to blame here but myself.

Jesus is worth more of your time than the few seconds you can throw to Him. He seeks you out daily and wants to love on you and be your greatest ally. All you have to do it stop chasing after a life of sin. Just stand still. And let Him come to you.

Maybe our own little worlds with population: 1, can begin to expand.

http://shereadstruth.com/2016/09/05/gods-command-t...