I have been making a conscience effort to read my devotional
at some point of the day. I am not going
to say Morning or Night, because my days change constantly and I know if I put
a ‘time frame’ more specific than Sometime During the Day, I will eventually
fail, and then that is two quick steps away from not trying to get it
done. So. Anytime. During that particular
date on the calendar.
I am reading Streams in the Desert. It’s fantastic and I highly recommend it if you haven’t made that particular devotion a part of your book collection. Yesterday’s devotion was awesome. It compared our journey into our callings as part of a musical composition. And in particular, the musical rest. We know that Rests are a part of any good song… the space when you breathe in and prepare for the next note. You know they are coming, you prepare for them, you use them to launch yourself into the next stanza. But when we get to a Rest in our calling, we get restless. We forget that God may have placed a Rest there for a particular reason, because he is preparing to launch us into our next note. We see the other notes playing in other people’s lives, and we get restless and worried that we are missing our cue.
So if you are at that space in your journey, where things seem to have come to a standstill, put your ear to the sky and listen. You’ll hear it. The shiver, the breathing in. The purposeful rest that draws the crowds closer in anticipation. Don’t’ despair that you are missing your cue. You are where you are meant to be. Where you next note will harmonize with the rest of the chorus and send God’s name echoing out into the wilderness.
I am reading Streams in the Desert. It’s fantastic and I highly recommend it if you haven’t made that particular devotion a part of your book collection. Yesterday’s devotion was awesome. It compared our journey into our callings as part of a musical composition. And in particular, the musical rest. We know that Rests are a part of any good song… the space when you breathe in and prepare for the next note. You know they are coming, you prepare for them, you use them to launch yourself into the next stanza. But when we get to a Rest in our calling, we get restless. We forget that God may have placed a Rest there for a particular reason, because he is preparing to launch us into our next note. We see the other notes playing in other people’s lives, and we get restless and worried that we are missing our cue.
So if you are at that space in your journey, where things seem to have come to a standstill, put your ear to the sky and listen. You’ll hear it. The shiver, the breathing in. The purposeful rest that draws the crowds closer in anticipation. Don’t’ despair that you are missing your cue. You are where you are meant to be. Where you next note will harmonize with the rest of the chorus and send God’s name echoing out into the wilderness.
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