Linger-to stay reluctant to leave.
To stay in a place, a moment, a relationship, an embrace…
Church is over…I’m out the side door and on my way home. Worship/Quiet Time is over I’m up and onto the next thing on the list. There are many reasons I don’t linger in relationships, but the main are commitment and intensity. Hugs….it’s just not who I am, I am not a physical touch person…so I give the one arm tap on the back quick and let me go kind of hug. There are few times I can remember being reluctant to leave anything…I’m usually quick to run to see what’s next or experience something new. Nothing has ever appealed to me for a very long time…I get bored easily…my attention is fleeting…my ideas of what I want are constantly changing….I don’t linger!!!!
Well, then there was Jesus! And over the last 7 months, I think He is showing me the importance of staying in a moment…like when He is speaking, Or a relationship…to know who I am in Him, A place….like His presence, or an embrace…because there is nothing like the love of Abba. I definitely find myself hungry for these things to be my very attachment to life…my life support. I want His Word, His love, His presence, and my identity in Him to be the things that keep me going….to be my very breath of life. For my life to stop when these things are not present, and for me to have to reconnect to move on to move forward. I want to linger in everything He has for me, and I definitely want to be reluctant to leave His Presence, and His embrace. I want to grow in a way that these moments of lingering become my own outward expression of who Christ is in my life.
Lingering, was a joke to me for quite a while because God placed someone in my life who loved to linger especially in an embrace. I just didn’t understand the purpose, and it made me highly uncomfortable. Oh the way God moves in ways we never could of imagined. I still don’t linger in embraces, it makes me awkward. However, God is definitely revealing to me the importance of the purpose to sometimes just…..
BE STILL AND KNOW.
Know the love and very intentional purpose He has for us in all things. Especially, things He ordained to be apart of our life. Like, people He puts in our path, who know the importance of lingering, and can teach us more than they ever know even in an awkward embrace! 🙂
