Be Still
Imagine
you’re sitting at lunch with your old high school friends conversing after so
much time that only feels like mere days have past. You sip your sweet tea
silently as you hear laughter and gossip of the latest relationship or
excitement of summer travel plans. The attention is turned toward you to tell
what’s new in your life; the silence continues. If you know me my whole life
has been pretty much mapped out by the minute and full of struggles to fit
everything in lately, its’ been the complete opposite.” Maybe I can talk about
what I’ve pinned on Pinterest lately or my new dress?” That accounting test
coming up? No, I sit there in silence.
For once in my life I’m
completely still.
I was the kid who constantly left my pink mat to ask when naptime was
over so I could get up and go play (which now I question that decision) but
I’ve always wanted to be constantly busy. So, now I have all this time on my
hands and nothing to do with it. I began to pray for God to send me something
to occupy my time and I received no response. God wasn’t giving me the silence
treatment as I have been giving Him he was answering my question in his own
glorious way. I prayed for a worldly thing to occupy my time and my Father
wants me to spend time with Him instead. It’s so easy to go to a Christian
school, get cute for chapel, sing a few songs and go on with you week only opening your bible to do a
quick devotion before bedtime. God cleared out my schedule to have room for Him
to step in. It wasn’t a coincidence that everyone seemed to be busy all of a sudden
or school slowed down it was all a part of His plan. This is one of those times
when I just looked up and smiled and told my God congratulations, you got me
this time. Sometimes it takes that for us to focus our eyes back to our maker,
it’s a wake up call. I wish I could say I was sinless and didn’t need that
reminder but I’m so thankful for the cross so that I can be forgiven for that
sin. Maybe God is sending some way and needs me as a witness….perhaps He’s
sending me on a new journey in the future and wants to spend time with me
before it…I don’t know. I’m just so excited to spend more time with my heavenly Father!!
May you find rest and
peace in your walk with Christ.
Xoxo, The Girl In a
Polo and Pearls
Hebrews 4: 9-11 “Let us therefore
strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of
disobedience.”
