“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among
the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
(Psalm 46:10, ESV)
Midst the compartments of time, work, priorities, intentions,
passions, humor, interests and activities that fill up our days, can we find extra time
to do another thing? Midst our
collections of mementos, odd little items of paper and poems with numerous souvenirs
stacked up or boxed away, how many more things will we do that will yield more
assortment of the things we did, now remembered. Are we what we do? Do our lives add up to what we have done or
who we are in the things we do?
Where along the journey of our days upon the earth, which
ultimately will be recorded in the memories of others, do we find and refine
the core of who we are? It is easy to do
things we love that are of little substance and easy to get caught up in the swirl
of activities running the spectrum between work and relationships. It also difficult to refrain from doing
things we feel are obligations and commitments.
In this busyness of doing, we add more and more doing. Even in our faith, we can have a tendency to
make this vital basis for our living, a thing we do. Faith, which we may claim
as central to our living thus joins the countless other items on the shelves bending
with the weight of all the things we do and call our living.
God calls us to relationship. It is a redeemed relationship.
He is not thing we do amongst all the other things we do. He is Father we go to for all peace, need,
comfort and grace. A Living Son who walks alongside of us in all of our days with
hope, redemption and restoration and a constant, consistent and empowering Counselor
for every moment along the way. He dwells
from a place of love as we go Him in prayer.
He waits from a place of grace we carve out when we are still before Him
and desire His will. He gives from a place of benevolence when we come to Him
in need. He heals from a place of mighty
strength as we trust and obey. He teaches from a place of truth when we go to
Him for wisdom.
Our faith is not a thing we do but a place we go to find,
wait and dwell in our Heavenly Father’s love. Before Jesus Christ could ever do
a single thing, He went and spent time in the presence of His Father in
communing prayer and in the midst the vast demands of His ministry, He walked
away to go to a place where His Father waited for Him. Before all things and in
the midst of all things, our Living God and the relationship we have with Him must
be the place we go for all things.
“Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus
got up, left the house and went to a solitary place , where he prayed” (Mark
1:35, NIV).
Suggested Reading … Mark 1
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