The most important thing that you can do with your life is get into a relationship with God.  The second most important thing that you can do with your life is help someone else get into a relationship with God.  I can honestly think of nothing more important than having a real and meaningful relationship with God.

Most people would agree with what I just said, but while we say this is the most important thing that we can do with our life, it is often not the thing that we do with our life.  Our relationship with God and helping others to get into that relationship does not even often make the top three in our daily living!  We sarcastically live the saying on the t-shirt!

When the opportunity to get into or grow in a relationship with God presents itself, we should drop everything and pursue the opportunity – if it really is the most important thing.

When the opportunity to share with someone else how they can get into the relationship presents itself, then we should drop everything and do everything we can to help them understand, so that they might pursue the relationship.

Our words say one thing, but our actions prove another!  What if today is the day of His return and we put off the relationship until tomorrow? If we believe what we say we believe, then we need to drop everything and chase after God and help others to do the same.

I sometimes get so caught up in ministry, that I miss the opportunities to do the most important ministry of all.  I am asking God to help me with that!  I want to be in step with Him.  I’ll know I’m there when I drop everything to pursue our relationship and when I am helping others to do the same!

God help me to take the time to be in a real and right relationship with You and let me see the evidence that my relationship is real and right by my dropping everything to help others get into and grow that relationship too!

There is something about the world that we live in that just seems to produce negativity.  It is all around us!  Turn on the television and it is there.  Read the newspaper and smacks you in the face.  Listen to most conversations long enough and it will make its appearance.

With all of the negativity, it is easy to become negative yourself, without even realizing it.  Here are five negatives that I have learned from negativity that I’ve often  allowed into my life:

1.)  Negative Complaining Digs The Hole Deeper! When you find yourself in a hole, the temptation is to complain about the hole you are in.  This negativity does not help you to get out of the hole, but instead digs the hole deeper, making it harder for you to work your way out of it on your on!

2.)  Finding Someone To Blame Is Not A Solution! When things are not working the way we want them to or think they should, we often look for someone to blame it on.  Even if someone else is to blame, playing the blame games does not help, it only hinders by wasting time and much-needed energy!

3.)  A Bad Attitude Messes Up More Than You Know! One of the most important commodities that you posses it your attitude.  If it gets messed up, then everything else is going to get messed up.  Attitude is the first of many dominos – it can be beautiful or a big mess!

4.)  Negativity Is Blinding To Positiveness! When we are negative, it is very hard for us to see any positive around us and often the result is just more negativity.  Even when life is working against you, look for the positive and find the strength, wisdom and direction you need to drive out of the bad and to a better place!

5.)  Critical Attracts Critical! When we have a critical, negative and complaining spirit, we need to understand that this spirit attracts like spirits.  Negative attracts negative and complaining attracts complaining!  Before long, it’s not just your problem, but you with a bunch of other problems and no good attitude to help fix any of it!

The best way to deal with negative is with positive!  It’s your choice, so make it wisely!

Netflix is a pretty cool service for that you can have at home.  For around $6 a month you can have access to all kinds of movies and tv shows that will stream to your tv instantly via the internet!  We have it and we have really taken advantage of the convenience of having ready access 24/7!

Netflix is cool, but do you want to know something even better than Netflix?   Have you ever stopped to think that God provided us with 24/7 access to His Word?  Most of us have our own copy and now there are all kinds of tools via the internet that allow you to read, study and even get direction from others concerning God’s Word and how it applies to the living out of our lives.

One of my favorite tools is YouVersion!  This is a Bible Reader community that also has an assortment of reading plans that will help you to read daily and be accountable for making sure that you take the time to read what you are supposed to.  I use it everyday, multiple times during the day and the most exciting thing is that everyone can have 24/7 access from their computer, ipad, phone or other portable device for FREE!  Check it out and get the advantages that this tool, utilizing the most important tool of all can bring into your life!

Let me know what you think and remember to G3!