Imagine you are walking along the beach. The sand is sliding in and out of your toes as the ocean brushes over your feet ever so gently. The sun begins to rise on the horizon. The sky is painted in an array of orange and pink hues. The view is breathtaking. As you breathe in the fresh air, you smell the newness of the day that has been placed before you. As you continue to peer across the ocean embracing all the beauty before your eyes, a seagull flies nearby, sweeping near the ocean surface. What a delight as you imagine the freedom he has in the open sky. Just as you imagine soaring free in the beautiful skies, the wind blows across your face and through your hair and you feel an immense freedom. Peace sweeps through your entire body and you know deep within that there is a presence within you whispering “I am within you and will never leave you”. At this moment, you experience the greatest freedom from the things that bound you in the world around you. You want to stay in this place. You soak up all that you can to experience it as long as you can, walking freely along the beach shore engaging all your senses. The world feels as though it has stood still and it is just you, the beach and all that has been placed before you in the peaceful scenario by the one who has loved you from the beginning, your first love who “formed [your] inmost being and knit [you] in [your] mother’s womb,” Psalm 139:13.
In this moment God meets you where you are. He meets you in this pivotal moment of your life as you embrace all he has laid before you. Do you feel His encounter? Have you wondered where he has been lately? Have you been spiritually starved, caught up in the busyness of life? Are you restless and feel like you never have a chance to sit down, let alone pray? Or may be you just feel there is more to your life, more to you, God is calling you but you don’t know what for? Or perhaps you are afraid to be still and listen, afraid of what you may hear? May be you are afraid to surrender control of the things in your life, afraid of the unknown? Whatever it may be, in this moment when you let go and let His presence sweep you into the solitude of you and Him, feel the freedom of knowing He is with you as He guides your hands, feet, eyes, ears, and thoughts.
So often we feel stuck in the mundane of life. We check the boxes on our to do lists and even the boxes in our faith. One day, we wake up and feel something is missing in our life.
Each of us was born with a desire, a desire for God. We fill this desire or longing, with money, sex, status, material things, etc. There is always something missing, something more. That something more is God. He is the only one that can fully satisfy that desire. He created us to desire a relationship with Him. If we never establish it and try to fill this desire with other stuff, we will never be full, something will always be missing.
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