You ever notice how God shows you your own behavior through others? He'll show you how you're treating Him in particularly. If you're a parent He'll show you through your children and goodness gracious that can be a humbling experience. He'll use people who mean something to you to show you just how raggedy you're being towards Him.
Many times I find myself complaining about how I feel and God will say "I feel the same way". When I feel ignored, over-looked or unimportant, it's always when my quality time with God is shady. It's when I'm letting things get in the way of carving out time to abide in Him. It's when I'm rushing through prayer, meditation and journaling to get on about my day because I have so many things to do. It's when I'm trying to juggle too much and I need to put the unnecessary stuff down and focus on the one most important.
Look here, I'm an only child. Yes I have siblings by my dad and we don't do the "half" stuff. But I grew up in a house with just my mother and I, and I'm the first born of my godparents, so I had all three of them to myself for a very long time, lol. So needless to say I require a lot of attention. I don't like feeling like I'm fighting for space and today God said "but I fight for your attention and space in your life all the time". Oop!
How many times do we put things and people ahead of God? How many times do log on to social media before we talk to Him in the morning? How many times do we sit there and scroll or watch TV when we can feel Him tapping us on the shoulder to talk to Him? How many times do we put people in our lives before Him and ignore Him? Everyday He sets a table and it's up to us to have a seat. He waits there patiently for us to choose Him because He loves us and wants to spend quality time.
So if you ever find yourself in a place where you're feeling unloved, unappreciated, unwanted, ignored, set aside...all the things - do an assessment on how you've been treating God. Check in to see if you're putting Him on the back burner. Check in to see if you're putting your attention elsewhere and need redirect your focus back to Him.
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