God's at the center of it all

So I'm doing my devotional today, spending some time reading the bible and then writing in my journal. And as I'm doing it, in the back of my mind I keep thinking, "I've got to hurry up and finish this so I can post on my blog, and then I need to pay some bills online, then I need to get ready so I can pick up my girlfriend, then I need to go to the store, then..."

But does God want me to relegate Him to a block of time in my day, to just one in a long list of activities for the day?

I'm methodical and organized (about some things) by nature. So I naturally want to separate my life into neat little blocks of time; neat little categories. Time with God spent praying to Him, or reading His word, or just praising Him and worshipping Him, is something that I set apart. Today God impressed on me how important it is that He is at the center of everything that I do. This means that when I'm paying my bills online, God is at the center of it. When I'm eating, God is at the center of it. When I'm driving, God is at the center of it.

I've known in my head for a while now that God needs to be at the center of every part of my life. When I gave my life to Him, I didn't give portions of it only. But I act like that's what I've done. I can't pick and choose which parts of me I want to give to Him - He is a jealous God (Deuteronomy 4:24). He wants all of me.

So God has given me a new way to look at the activities in my life. Not a timeline, in which devotion to Him is measured by the hours spent doing certain things. But instead, a circle within a circle. He is at the center of this circle, and each area of my life radiates out from Him. One of these days, I'll try to post a visual of this somewhere on this blog.