Quality time with God
Dear Reader,
There is something of great sensitivity that I want to draw your attention to today. I pray your true ears are open to receive this message.
Your efforts for God are chaotic, often ineffective, and quite frankly, unacceptable until they become offerings of obedience. Now, don’t reject the message before I’m finished you can rest assured every letter is for your edification. Obedience is not making up instructions on behalf of God and trying to follow through with them that’s called, I’m sorry to say, religious delusion. Obedience is simple, God speaks and you do exactly what He has said. If you are asking, ‘What is God saying? from confusion rather than inquiry it is possible you haven’t fulfilled the first instruction He gives; COME.
Quality - the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something.
Time - the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.
And He will call you even as you hurry along doing what you think you must or what brings you some semblance of satisfaction. Will you come? Because human nature is naturally self-centered you will hear His beckoning as, at best your next task to tackle, at worst a suggestion. altogether.
He will call you nonetheless. And soon your life will cry out for Him, a savior, a deliverer, a purpose. Yet your ability to hear not just His voice calling you, but His spirit drawing you is based on your ability to surrender, to make Him the central focus of your expended energies.
And when you do come, for you’ll have no choice, you’ll be surprised at what He wants from you; NOTHING.
Nothing you have, as it stands, can hold up in the light of His glory, in the presence of His majesty.
No, it is not for your offering that God calls you to Himself, but for His sacrifice for your good. And so His purpose will completely undo your reasoning, your fickle grasp on love and sonship and redemption.
The Lord is not calling you so you can DO anything for Him. He is calling you so you can BECOME of Him and growth occurs beyond what the natural eyes can see. This is why He calls each of us into a necessary WAITING…
The self-centered soul will see waiting through the lens of personal contribution, but when God calls you away to Himself He isn’t looking for you to DO. Don’t just start ‘doing something’… no, instead stop your doing and just be there.
Feel uncomfortable, feel inadequate, feel undeserving, let your anxieties roar, your short attention span show, let the truth of your hearts meditation be exposed, allow the facade you’ve called ‘self’ to fall away, and let yourself be consumed in His presence.
Accept His proposal into a love relationship, get to know Him, adjust your life to Him, let Him love you and teach you and transform you. His pace, His way, for His kingdom and His glory by His Spirit. It is only after the process of a surrendered response to His calling is long underway that you’ll have the capacity to hear Him say GO.
Quality Time with God is about the availability and surrender in spirit you are with Him, not just the number of minutes in isolation you have amassed. Quality Time with God teaches you not just what the words on the pages are but develops within you the ability to accurately hear what The Spirit of The Lord IS Saying. A crucial skill for the journey.
His Spirit within.
His Spirit upon.
Grace & Peace,
LORI LaChelle