Drive-thru Jesus

A few years ago I made a conscious decision to stop using drive-thru's. Typically the stuff you get going through a drive-thru is crap...carbo-loaded, sodium-saturated, fat bombs. The least I could do if I was going to poison myself with this garbage was park in the lot and get the exercise from walking into the building.

Fast food was created because we are too busy in our lives to stop and have a meal and the drive-thrus were built to help out those that are so busy they can't even take the time to stop for the fast food. With work, school, sports, play, family, church, chores...life is complicated and busy...who has time to eat.

A week ago I was in church sipping my Tim Horton's "role up the rim" coffee (which I parked and went inside to get). It struck me as it has in the past...am I too busy for God? Have I chosen to make my life to complicated?

Am I just pulling up to the window and placing my order..."could I get one gracious and forgiving Jesus...oh, and can you SUPER-SIZE that...it's been a heck of a week?"

I often hear people talk about needing more discipline to pray, more discipline to read my bible more discipline to...well it's a crock. It isn't discipline we need, at least it isn't for me. It's actually a full-blown attitude adjustment.

I shouldn't need discipline. This isn't something I have to do...it is something I want to do and something I chose to do.

I should jump on it just like I do for the other things in life I love. I don't need discipline to go to Tim's, I just hop in the car and go (in fact, I might just do that when I finish this). I don't need disciple to jump on Facebook and message friends and family and play games, I just do it.

Putting God first in life isn't easy...we all have commitments...but it is biblical. Just check out Exodus 20:3...though shalt have no other God's before me. How can He be one-and-only if he isn't the most important part of our day.

So not quite convinced? Need to know the benefits?

...well scripture says in Psalm 72:12-14 that...

He will rescue the poor when they cry to him;
He will help the oppressed, who have no one to defend them.
He feels pity for the weak and the needy, and he will rescue them.
He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their lives are precious to him.

Aren't we all poor, weak, needy and oppressed? Seems He just needs to be our priority.

In the end we love Him because He first loved us (1 John 4:19).

Now I said it...now I have to show! No more drive-thru Jesus.