Still Time

This summer has been wonderful for me and my family. We just returned from our vacation at the beach. We don't do much on vacation when I get my way. This year was my vacation for sure. I just sat on the beach for 5 days with a good book that I read from cover to cover, napped some, dipped my toes in the water occasionally but mainly just sat quietly and listened. Listened to the most peaceful sound to me and that is waves crashing on the shore, It's like each wave settles a piece of my being into comfortable stillness. It clears my head that tends to run in so many directions at once. It settles my body as I don't seek to meet too many people's expectations but just be still.

So many times over the years since God called me to Women's Ministry, I would be ready to roll wide open with an idea or a plan and God would put Psalm 46:10 in front of me: "Be still and know that I am God" He would sit me down again at His feet and teach me in that stillness. They were wonderful times, heart wrenching times, loving times, times of discipline but always still times. I continue to need more "still times".

We are too busy. We do not take time to sit and be still and listen to His voice in the silence. Have you ever stopped long enough to sit still, turn off all possible noise in your life (radio, tv, friends, facebook, cell phones, and on and on and on), openly share your worship and admiration for who God is - glorifying His name. Then, humbly ask Him to tell you what He wants from you....then with a pen and a piece of paper write down your thoughts as He talks to you not later but right then in that stillness, write all that comes to your mind, write freely and openly and humbly as God reveals His plans for you....

Of course, your relationship with Him will take you to different places....your walk....your confessions of sins....your forgiveness of others....your repentance meaning to truly walk away from that sin that keeps nagging at you - that all plays into our hearing our Father clearly....

Take all you've written when God is done and test it with scripture....bathe it in prayer....trust in His Holiness.....don't just talk to Him. Sit in stillness and know He is God.

I can sit here at the computer tonight and close my eyes and hear the ocean. I wonder if I can hear His voice tonight....can you?

Oh, how He loves you - Oh, how He loves me - Oh how He loves you and me.......sweet listening; it's better than sweet dreams!

May God bless you and your family richly with still time....still time with God... May He redeem your time and the use of it so that you will allot Him more time....May you each be blessed by the time to honor and glorify our King with the desire to serve Him and to serve others...May God bless you as you come in and as you go out....May He abudantly provide you with "still time".