This month has been a struggle for me to find/make time to read my bible. I know, I know. I’m a “missionary,” I’m a Christian, I won’t see God’s power and fire and glory rain down if I’m not focused. But it really has been a struggle- we just go go go go go, and then some more going, before finally having 3 hour team time and hitting the hay. As team time is the most essential part of World Race culture outside of Jesus, you might see it’s terribly difficult to find any time at all to be with Him in the Word.
You’ll forgive me for sounding so lax or lazy or uninterested. I’m totally interested. 100%. But we’ve been doing this for nearly 6 months now and a body seriously just can’t keep that kinds of schedule.
However, Jesus thinks I can. Every morning between 7:15 and 7:30 this one particular fly starts to land on my head. Seriously. Again and again and again. And if you think flies are loud and annoying normally, try having one land inches from your ear eight times in a row. The first day or two it happened, I remember waking up- mad- and then laughingly thinking that was a joke Jesus was playing on me in order to wake me up early to spend time with Him. It was almost as if I could hear Him calling, “Come on now…wake up…time to be with Me.”
And yet the first few times it happened, I shook it off, thinking that’s crazy.
Yet…is it? Is it really that crazy? Does God not move heaven and earth to be with us? Does God not desire our attention so much that He allows things to happen in our lives that draw our focus back to Him, where it rightfully belongs? Our God is a jealous God, and He will not share our relationship with other things- distractions, really. That’s what everything becomes when it leads to missing out on time spent with Him.
The whole fly thing… has it happened again? Ohhhh, yes. It has happened nearly every morning for two weeks. Every morning, save for Sunday. NO JOKE.
Coincidence? I think not.
Thanks for Your humor, Jesus, and thanks for Your dedication and commitment to me. I am desired and blessed and…humbled.
