For the past few weeks ive been blessed to have my sabbath on the sabbath!! Woot! What is it about a Sunday?? Not having a care in the world or any obligations. A day to just be. To enjoying others company (if you choose to hang out) or to just recharge for the week ( for the introverts). Generally, i find myself thinking of something to do…something to fill my day with. Im learning to just be on days such as this though. Do you ever get to just sit and listen? I know for most that may be difficult since you may live with people but im sure you have a place you go to be alone. If you don’t you should get one! A place where the music is turned down and the distractions of whatever life is for you sort of settle down. A place where you can hear what he has said and is saying. I sit now on a couch in my living room. On all sides i have windows through which i can see out into the woods, to the Big house, and out into the pond pasture. My windows have no curtains, no way to keep me from seeing out or people seeing in. The sun is very shiny today. Its illuminating trees, birds, old rotten wood, the green roof, and putting a shimmer on the water. What do i hear? Windchimes, the hum of the refridgerator, the annoying beeping of the fire detector(the battery is dying and i can’t reach it to change it!!), Sally meowing at the door, geese playing in the pond, hooves pounding the ground as the horses run, birds singing their little songs, airplanes coming in to land and taking off, and the wind blowing the creeky pourch swing. To you this may be noise…meaningless noise. To me this is great joy and delight. Why? well, because he’s saying something. He’s saying something great that my heart needs to hear. All too often i go throughout my day doing instead of being and listening. These particular noises remind me that im loved by the Creator. That im blessed more than i realize. That i am cared for and my fears and doubts are not something to hold me back. I think we forget that He is speaking to us all the time, we just don’t take time to really listen. Its never that he doesn’t speak to us only that we don’t listen……
Heb 13…
“So let’s go outside, where Jesus is, where the action is–not trying to be privileged insiders, but taking our share in the abuse of Jesus. This ‘insider world’ is not our home. We have our eyes peeled for the City about to come. Lets take out place outside with Jesus, no longer pouring out the sacrificial blood of animals but pouring out sacrifical praises from our lips to God in Jesus’ name. ” (the message version)
GO AND LISTEN.
