God is at the centre

By Daniel Francis

Have you ever tried to make God your priority in your day? Maybe you’ve found that your days get the better of you, and you need to make more space for God. From that thought, you decide that each day has to start with some level of worship or at least with a conversation with Him. I’m going through this myself right now. I’ve decided that each day should start with God: that means,  as soon as I wake up, I pray. Then I move straight  into reading my Bible. It sounds simple, right? You start your day with God first. So what’s the issue?

Well, as we all realise—not all days are created equally. Some days it’s difficult to put God first. Maybe you had a long night because you had to put in extra work. You wake up  exhausted, but this special project you are working on means you have to keep working from that morning to complete it in time. You don’t put God first that morning, and you feel like you let Him down. What about if you are a new parent, and your baby awakens before you even get a chance to greet the day. Their cries for comfort come before anything else. Again, you feel like you missed the mark— you did not put God first.

I have friends who’ve shared similar frustrations. We’re all trying  to make that special time for God and we want  to start our mornings with Him. Yet on those days when we are unable to, we feel like we are failing. Recently, I watched a beautiful video that discussed this same issue. It pointed out the deeper goal isn’t simply to put God first—it’s to place Him at the centre of everything.

When we minimise God’s presence in our lives to a morning routine or a specific time slot, in my example, praying and reading my Bible in the morning, we miss that we belong wholly to God. This means that it’s not just about what we do in our quiet time with Him, but it’s how we express our faith in everything we do. But when God is  the centre of our lives, He is present in all things. We carry Him into how we raise our children, in the stress of work and in every decision, word and action. That’s what it means to have Christ at the centre.

And when He is truly at the centre of our lives, there is no need to put Him first because He is always there. I like thinking about God in this way because when I thought of putting Him first and something got in the way of that, I felt like I was putting God lower down in my priority list and lessening His impact in my life. But when I think of Him as the centre of my life, I can see that He is always working through me. So it becomes less about the priority of my actions and more about including Him in everything I do. It is a subtle yet powerful shift in approach, and I challenge everyone reading this article to give it a try and to see how it impacts your relationship with God.

Daniel Francis is a millennial helping other millennials. He is a two-time author of the books The Millennial Mind and The Millennial Experience, and an entrepreneur. Over the past four years, he has served as a Personal Development Coach whose work targets Millennials and helps them tap into their full potential. He is also a self-publishing coach and has guided hundreds on self-publishing their book successfully.

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