Episode 422 - Michael John Cusick, “Why Bother with a Quiet Time?”

Michael opens a new series by telling the truth about his own quiet time. At sixteen, newly a follower of Jesus through Young Life, he was given a formula: 30 minutes of Bible reading, ACTS prayer, and scripture memory. He kept a clipboard. Underneath it all, he believed that if he was faithful enough, God would smile instead of frown. As his struggles with lust and unaddressed trauma grew, the discipline faded, and the shame got louder.

He talks about what happens when devotions become a way to earn God’s affection, and what Jesus actually says in Matthew 11, in Eugene Peterson’s words: come to me, get away with me, learn the unforced rhythms of grace. He explains why the traditional quiet time never fit a brain with ADHD and a body that goes numb, and he asks a question he often asks in counseling: where do you most naturally connect with God?

If you’ve ever felt guilty about not having quiet time, start here. Wait for what his spiritual director said after he told her his answer was a treadmill.

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