Rest=Vigor
Psalm 63:1 A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water.
I stepped away from this ministry for the longest time since it’s birth the past week. I had a great load on me building up to a family vacation; alone time and writing time with God are extremely difficult during vacation. I truly believe and understood that God knew I needed rest. I got that much needed rest, (yes sleeping late for those that know me), and some great family time at the beach. But something began to yearn in me yesterday for God. A deep welling inside me for what I find here early every day in my favorite chair in the peace of the early morning. My favorite Bible, a working computer, and the peace of prayer with God. On this rainy Saturday morning at home, my heart is at peace here with what my Lord has given me in the past days; He supplied just what I needed all week long, rest.
That rest has brought a renewed vigor for time with Him. My soul, as David’s cried out and thirsts for God. I truly long for these intimate moments in God’s Word that I experience in my “secret place”. Do you have that secret place that you spend time with God? Do you know that it is where you will here from God when you do? Matthew 6:6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. A quiet place, a quiet time, a sacred time that God sees and responds to your heart for Him there. He sees you getting up early, staying up late, truly seeking just Him in his Word and prayer alone; he sees how much you desire to hear from him, and he gives you those encouraging words in his written Word. If you are not spending alone time with God, you will never hear from God.
What word, what event, what pressing on your heart will it take for you to seek God every day? Has He not put circumstances in your life to draw you to Him? Has He not put these events in your life to reveal himself to you; to show you his presence, to show you his power, his sovereignty? Wait…..have you not recognized them? If you haven’t been spending time in the Word, you will never see and understand all that He is doing around you. The passage in Matthew speaks of what God shows you in secret; reveals to you in prayer through his Word. He is condemning those people that pray openly to show off their supposed religiosity; they pray just to be heard. That is their reward Christ says; your reward for the humble heart seeking him is hearing from Him, not him hearing from you. He knew what you were gonna say anyway. Don’t you want to hear what He has to say?
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