Don't Push Him Aside

I snapped a string on my guitar today. I've never done it before and I've heard it can be very painful if it snaps and hits you so I was thankful that it didn't fling back at me. I was just about to have a moment of worship with God when it happened. At first, I tried not to let it bother me that my guitar now only had 5 strings, but it soon become very obvious to me that I was not focusing so much on God but on my guitar and I realised it was no way to worship. So I had 2 choices... 

1. Stop worshipping and just go on and get back to work or...

2. Go buy new strings and fix the guitar. 

I chose option 2. God is too important in my life to just push aside. I wanted to worship and sing, and so I did everything in my power to do so. I know that if it was God choosing to either show me love or to just push me aside, He would choose show love every time, and I want to be able to do the same back for Him as He would for me. 

Going out and buying a string was not a simple task though. The getting to the store was fine, but when I got there I didn't actually know what I needed, thankfully the guys in the store did. Then there was the matter of getting home and restringing my guitar which I had never done before and had never seen it done or been told how to do it. There was a simple solution for this... Google! I searched how to restring the guitar, found a site with an explanation and diagrams and I figured it out. So now my guitar was ready to go and I was able to worship. So my thought that I would take a break from work and spend 30 mins worshipping God turned into 2 hours of sorting out my guitar and then finally getting to worship. But did I let that bother me... no! Why? Simply for the reasons I said before. I was showing God the love that He showed me. There is nothing more important than Him. Everything I do is for Him. There is no pushing God aside because it's simpler that way. I went out of my way for Him in the same way that I know He would do for me. 

Thankful for: Lip Balm

I have days where I am thankful for things you wouldn't normally think someone would be thankful for. Today, it's lip balm. My lips feel dry and sore... lip balm fixes that. And I know some people may think that there are much bigger things to be thankful for, I know that but I believe God is the reason for all we have in life today, even the little things like lip balm. He created the person who created lip balm. He created the stuff to make lip balm. Really, He created lip balm Himself! So why shouldn't I be thankful for it!