When we spend time at our jobs trying to provide for our family, we have less time to spend with our family. How do we address the guilty feelings we have over missed time with them?
When we spend time with our family, we have less time to spend with God. How do we address the guilty feelings we have over missed time with God during extremely busy times of our life?
Our consensus was that God is a forgiving God. He knows about all of our pressures and responsibilities. He understands the expectation to provide for our family and to spend time with our family. Even though we may not always have the time we wish we had for reading the Word, we can still conduct our life as an act of worship. We can worship through our life while we work in a way that honors Him. We can worship through our life while we give love to our family and provide leadership to its members. While this doesn't excuse us from trying to make time in our schedule to read the Word, pray, minister, etc., we should remember that God does not deal in guilt. Guilt is a negative emotion that does not bring about right actions spawned from right motives. And regardless of what we have or haven't done in the past, we can only change what we do next. We should be good stewards of our time, but more than anything we should do our best to honor God in all that we do.
Topic initiated by Brian
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