Being Still

Psalm 46:10

The other day I was doing some cleaning around the house while the girls were busy on a project and the house was quiet. My first thought was how mundane life is at times, how we do the same things day in and day out, then my mind began to think upon words to a chorus we sang on Sunday. I could just feel the Lord’s presence around me. I felt Him speak to me about things I have been heavy hearted over. I felt a peace and reassurance that He was there, walking with me through these situations.

God says to “be still,” so . . . I wonder if we stopped looking at our lives as boring, and began using the mundane times to stop and listen to the Lord, how much deeper and more intimate would we become with Him?

My prayer this week, for me and you, will be to take those quiet moments to listen to God speak and not try to fill them with noise or busy-ness.

Getting Alone

It seems that our lives get more and more busy everyday. Just as I think “Ok, after this or that is completed things will slow down”, but reality is that another “this or that” begins. My New Year’s resolution was to eat healthier, exercise more, and spend more time with my Savior. The hours in the day begin to run together and the next thing I know is that one of those has not been accomplished.

Time with the Savior should be top priority. Unless I allow time to be truly alone with Him, how can He speak to me? There is so much I have to learn and so much that He wants to teach me but this cannot happen if I am not listening.

I am going to pray that each of us will stop and take time to be truly alone with Christ. When we do this our relationship with Him will grow deeper and we will begin to hunger for His Word more and more.

“Jesus can expound nothing until we get through all the noisy questions of the head and are alone with Him.” - Oswald Chambers