UGA Wesley

Two day challenge:
One of the more religious of our activities, if we’re honest, is daily quiet time. We are heaped with guilt when it doesn’t happen or is shorter than we intended or we doze during prayer, as if our life in Christ amounted to an hour a day (or whatever). Good news: it doesn’t.
From God’s perspective, our life in him is meant to be lived with some sense of continuity. John 15 makes us out to be a limb on a vine. All our fruit, all our lives come from the vine. There is something that is stolen from us if we live as if the substance of our spiritual life is lived in a morning ‘time with God,’ namely a life lived with the presence of God as our constant companion. It is for that purpose that he gave us his Spirit, so that our lives can be hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3:3).
So here’s the challenge: For the next two days, intend to involve God with every part of your day. For some of you, this is part of your life already (consider this a reminder!). For the rest of us, what we’re undertaking here in no religious duty—you don’t get points for ‘well done’ or points taken away when you forget. It’s an exercise to jumpstart a movement of proximity of our lives to God’s life. So, when you get dressed, ask the Lord. Talk to him in the shower. Wait in silence for him when you’re in traffic. Address your thoughts to the King of the universe and ask him for editing.
Spiritual life is more than a quiet time—it’s a dynamic life lived with the glad Spirit of God as he plays in the world in ten thousand places.

John 15: I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser…abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.