The Sacred
So many years of incessant busyness. We’re all so busy. Take time to sit at My feet. And I checked off my Bible chapters dutifully every morning as my mind wandered to my “to-do” list.
Now I revel in Your Holy Word! I’m steeping myself in You this morning. All this stuff I thought I needed cannot compare to one moment in Your presence. Your Holy Presence. I turn the phone off. I leave the room with the computer. TV off. These things that remove me from You- and there are so few left- but they pull on me. They draw me into busyness away from You. I jealously guard my time with You.
As a young mother, it was the jobs. Working. Working. Working. Laundry, clean the house, fold the clothes, do the dishes, get groceries and the poster board. Eat your vegetables. Bigger house. Newer car. Meetings and groups. Answer the phone. Go to bed and start over in the morning.
Now I’m learning to stay in Your presence after I close my Bible and get on with my day. You are with me as I do the laundry and prepare the meals. Now I do these sacred things for You, my King. I honor You to the best of my ability in these simple tasks that You have for me. For You are here. Always with me. I am content with what I have.
I reflect on Your glory and majesty, my Creator, as I watch the cardinal in the yard. Working Your words into my life. Surrounded by Your presence and peace, which passes all understanding. Learning to run to You at every assault that attempts to steal that peace. Have Mercy, Jesus! Give me the grace to walk through this... And You always come through.
References
Matthew 6:30-33
The Message
“If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met
Matthew 7:24-27
The Message Bible
“These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit—but nothing moved that house. It was fixed to the rock26-27 “But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don’t work them into your life, you are like a stupid carpenter who built his house on the sandy beach. When a storm rolled in and the waves came up, it collapsed like a house of cards.”
2 Timothy 1:14
Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.
Romans 12:1-2
The Message
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Philippians 4:7
and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.