Back when I ran housekeeping for turnover days at a camp, I would send the crew out with the phrase "clean to get it clean, not to get it done."
When you're cleaning you can go through the motions and check it off your list, and it probably looks better than before, but is it really clean or is it just done? When your focus is on truly removing dirt and disinfecting, you'll be more thorough, check your work, and have even better results.
The same is true for our quiet time with God. We can just get it done and check it off our list for the day, and thanks to the power of God and His word, we will benefit. But it's so much more effective when we truly slow down to focus, listen and pray.
There will be days when it's better to just get it done than to do nothing at all, but as often as we can, let's avoid going through the "devotion motions" and really take in what God has for us.
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Psalms 34:8 NIV
[8] Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
Jeremiah 29:13 NIV
[13] You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Isaiah 55:10-11 NIV
[10] As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, [11] so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
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