Avoiding

I should be downstairs preparing the biblestudy for tomorrow's women's group that I am leading. But instead I'm up here checking my e-mail, checking Mike's blog to see what's up with my favorite twins, checking Matt and Dawn's blog, and now writing on my own. Doing the biblestudy will be life-giving. We're going through the gospel of Mark and I'm learning a lot. I feel like I'm starving a bit because we were on holiday last week and I didn't open my Bible once. But for me spending time with God is like exercise. When it's done I feel so alive and refreshed, but beforehand I can think of a million other things that would be easier. And when I don't do it for a few days it's a lot harder to get going again. As a follower of Jesus I know that communication with him is key to living the life I want to live. Just like I know that if I eat several bars of chocolate in a day I'm going to gain weight and feel sluggish. But I often avoid the former and do the latter. What a mess I'm in. This flesh is getting me down.