Persuade your heavenly Father?

Briggs Crites delivered the Dedication and Baptism talk at the circuit assembly this weekend, and he said to the candidates:

"You cannot persuade your heavenly Father that you do not have time to read his word the Bible every day."

This quote really jumped out at me - it was actually the only thing I wrote down as "notes" during his talk, and at lunch I went over to talk with him about it, to tell him how much it resonated with me. He told me this quote was actually one he "borrowed" from Bro. Loesch's talk at the Delaware KH dedication. He also related that in that talk Bro. Loesch said that he used to smoke (surprise! I thought he was always a JW too.) He said that the 2 best cigarettes of the day were the 1st one in the morning and the last one before going to bed - and that if you were sitting on the edge of the bed, ready for that last smoke and found out you did not have any cigarettes, you would get dressed and go to the store to get more. Smile - kind of a funny way to relate the necessity we want to feel to read the bible every day, but it underlines the point, doesn't it?

I read the bible with Bronwyn before she goes to bed - there have been nights that she has said, "What about the bible reading?", and I have replied, "Not tonight, it is too late." But it is true, I really could not persuade our Heavenly Father that there isn't time to read his word . . . and so this is indeed a case of ME having to transform my thinking (and therefore my feelings too.)