Think about it. In Mark 10 Jesus required a young man to give up everything he had to follow Him. In Matthew 8 Jesus requires us to follow Him above and despite family. God asks us to take up our crosses and deny ourselves in Luke 9. God asks us to go tell the world about Him in Matthew 28. Countless times throughout the New Testament Jesus tells us to be servants; to be the last and not the first; to think of others before ourselves.
What's more, is that He wants to have a relationship with us. Relationships cost time and money. You spend time with your friends to know them. You spend money on them, unconsciously or not. If you're gonna go drive and see them, it's going to cost you gas.
If you're going to have a relationship with God, you need to invest in Him. You need to invest your time to spend time with Him. To know Him, you need to hang out with Him. You need to invest your whole self. If you don't have money (which, by the way, you probably do have some. Even if its only $1.), you have time. Don't tell me you don't have time. The average American person spends about 67 minutes a day eating. That's an entire hour. You could argue that eating is something necessary for living, but most Christians would say that Jesus is their everything and agree that He is necessary for living.... My point is that you do have time.
I'm pretty sure that every Christian would say that they want something from God. Money, healing, help, comfort, answers, blessings, stuff, better relationships, provision, protection, wisdom, etc, etc, etc. God wants to bless everyone, but think of it this way:
What if there was a farmer who decided that his fields were no longer worth the investment of planting his corn? The corn was just too precious to him, and he was too afraid to lose it; too afraid that he wouldn't reap a harvest from it. So he planted 3 kernels of corn for his entire field. He then proceeded to pray that God would bless him with a bountiful harvest. He prayed and begged and fasted and asked but when harvest came around he had 3 stalks of corn. He cried and yelled and angrily asked God where He is and why didn't He bless me?
Using this analogy makes it very clear. Anyone who lives remotely close to any kind of crop knows that you reap what you sow. If you sow an entire field, you're going to get a field's worth of that crop. If you only throw a few seeds out there, you're only going to get a tiny bit of that crop.
So if your relationship with God feels dry and scanty, look at what you're sowing. What are you investing?
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