You will rush to work
Or wake yourself to feed a hungry baby
You pull yourself away from what you want to do
Because you have to
You read My Word
'Cause it is a part of your schedule
But I want you to come away with Me
Just because you want to
I long for those sweet times
When you sat before Me speechlessly
Just adoring Me and thanking Me
Not because you had to . . . Just because you wanted to
Or wake yourself to feed a hungry baby
You pull yourself away from what you want to do
Because you have to
You read My Word
'Cause it is a part of your schedule
But I want you to come away with Me
Just because you want to
I long for those sweet times
When you sat before Me speechlessly
Just adoring Me and thanking Me
Not because you had to . . . Just because you wanted to
My soul has been so thirsty these days for quality time with my Savior. I would find myself telling the LORD how I just longed to be with him. But I had to get the laundry done. Ezekiel needed to be fed now. Dinner preparations were calling. Life.
But it is not going to get easier from here . . . I always have time for what I have to do. The truth of His Word has been pulling on my heart - telling me that He must be my first love. Always. Regardless of the circumstances. That I can go a day without fixing my hair or keeping the house just how I like it . . . as long as my heart has been yielded to Him that day. As long as He is pleased with my time and my day. As long as my soul is in a place of fellowship with Him. Nothing else matters.
But it is not going to get easier from here . . . I always have time for what I have to do. The truth of His Word has been pulling on my heart - telling me that He must be my first love. Always. Regardless of the circumstances. That I can go a day without fixing my hair or keeping the house just how I like it . . . as long as my heart has been yielded to Him that day. As long as He is pleased with my time and my day. As long as my soul is in a place of fellowship with Him. Nothing else matters.
3 comments:
How true that is. Glad you realize it at a young age and that your heart's desire is to spend time with your Lord and Savior. Everything else seems to "fall" in place after that. Love you, Mom
Your post echoes my thoughts lately! How can I want to do anything besides serve and spend time with my King? I long to know and love Him more, but if this is true how can I bear to go through a day without worshiping and fellowshipping with Him? His patience and love with the likes of me are so humbling...
How easily distracted we are
How patient is He
When He loved and died for the unlovely....no unlovely kind of implies mostly not lovely..absolutely void of anything good or righteous is closer. Oh to understand the depths of His love will take an eternity!
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