What's Your Hobby

So tell me, what are your hobbies? What do you do when you’re not at work? –That’s the question I’ve heard asked in many offices throughout the World. Many times it’s answered easily enough but other times the person being asked the question just looks puzzled. They answer, “Oh I don’t know. I guess I don’t have a hobby.” So the follow up question is –Well, what do you like to do when you’re on your own? — That question will tell you what your “hobby” is.

A Hobby is a beautiful thing that allows us to let down our hair and be who we know we truly are. They don’t just give us pleasure in doing them, they help define us. In many ways we can get to know someone better by watching their hobbies. For some it’s reading, for others it’s watching TV. I’ve found that the majority of the people have more than one thing that they enjoy doing. Being with the family and playing games, driving cars while listening to their favorite CD, or cooking and horseback riding, etc. It’s an expression of our inner self.

That’s why we see in the Bible that we should desire or delight in the Lord. God wants us to spend our “free” time with Him. He doesn’t want to be “fit” into our schedule, for the Sunday usual. And without trying to make this sound trite, He wants to be our Hobby.

I heard in Sunday school once that we should make time for God. At first it sounds like a very good thing to do, right? But we make time for the things that are hard to do or the things that we don’t want to do. “I have to make time to go to the Dentist.” “We really need to make time to go to the grocery store” etc etc. That’s not what He wants. He wants us to enjoy time with him, not make time for Him.

When we turn to Him and make Him our desire, and our delight we will not only develop a deeper relationship with Him but we will define ourselves by Him. And by continuing in Him we will experience the blessing that is associated with this delight. Psalms chapter one says that we will be like a tree planted by rivers of water. In chapter 37 it says that if we delight ourselves in the Lord He will give us the desires of our heart.

Let’s make today different than any other day. Let’s not spend time, invest time, or make time…let’s enjoy time with God and His Word.