TIME ALONE WITH GOD?
28th May 2014
We live in a world filled with noise and distraction; for some it is almost impossible to find a place of quiet, but it is so valuable, that even deliberately waking in the night makes it worthwhile.
Don’t strive, but ask the Father to help you find a quiet place where you can be alone with Him. It may not be a physical room, but a withdrawing into your inner being until you are still enough for your focus to shift from earth to heaven.
Communication can be wordless, God can scan you and read your innermost needs, and as He lifts the burdens and cares off you, you will sense His grace and presence, and experience divine refreshment.
In Matthew 6:6, we are commanded to find such a place, “to go into our room, to close the door and pray.” When God asks us to do something, it is always with a purpose to bless us and to do us good. He is not so much interested in the action of obedience, so much as the result He knows it will achieve.
When my children were small and demanding, the only place I could shut and lock the door was the “loo.” I had to put strategies in place to find a quiet spot. I know that it is not easy, but the benefits are immense. Once you learn to connect spirit to Spirit, the place becomes irrelevant; it becomes an inner turning to the Spirit of God for His assurance, presence and voice. He has promised never to leave us, to abide with us, waiting longing to be tangibly present.
Hebrews 4:11 seems a contradiction, “Let us therefore, make every effort to enter that rest.” It will require the effort of practice, but as with all disciplines, the more you do it the easier it becomes.
Oh, walk with Jesus, wouldst thou know
How deep, how wide His love can flow
Come to us now, in converse stay
And, Oh, walk with us day by day
by Joyce Sibthorpe
