Come
November/22/2006 07:05 AM
Come into my presence this morning. Empty yourself out. All that you have to do, even that which is for me. Even that. it’s all got to wait. This exercise of beginning in my presence, this is why you love to walk alone in the early morning. To drink Me in. To sit before me. To know my heart. If you know my heart how easy to know my ways. If you know my heart, what matter where you are or what is before you. It is all the same. All can be met with the power of that fact alone.
Yes. My King. To sit and drink you in. To prostrate my heart before you. That is the most lovely of times. It brings such peace that I could easily sleep it seems. Thoughts dissipate. A sense of your nearness springs immediately upon my being. You are here. I am here. What a wonderful thing that is.
I wish everyone I know could feel this. Just to be lost in You. In the silence. In the still, quiet, closeness. In the precious, precious silence, You are here. I pray for my family and for my friends. For those that I see so entwined in the stress and pressures of life. Oh that you would give them this great blessing of heightened sensitivity to your presence. We know that you are ALWAYS with us. We, by faith walk through each day trusting in that wonderful fact. Yet, some by faith more than I, because whenever I stop. Whenever the silence reigns. Your presence is like the soft touch of fingers on my face.
Oh I could. Yes I could stay here like this for hours I think. If my life ever comes to the place where the phone stops ringing and the bustle goes away. If my responsibilities are ever given to another. Ah yes, if they put me in a nursing home and leave me for days and months and years. I think I could revel in this wonderful closeness forever.
Yes, I know. It must have it’s place. But when the span of my life is finally more than a breath. Then. Then may I sit before you just to bathe in your lovely light? Even then, I know. Even then there will be things to do and I do love them. I love everything I can do in your name and with your heart. I love working. I love seeing needs met. I love it when things come together. I love creating.Yet, here. Right here. This is what I love best of all. I love music, but the silence more. I love people, but your presence more. I love serving, but resting more. As long as the rest has in it this rich, thick, comfortable sensation of You. Oh, it is so addicting. So intensely wonderful. So intimate.
May I ask that you would fill me with it so much that it would spill over into my time with others. Please amplify this that I sense when everything stops and when things are silent and still. If there are things I can do to bring others into this, show me how. I am wholly unable, on my own, to do it at all. But, if you will grant me this one thing. That your PEACE and REST will resonate from me strongly - like now. Like here....only with the volume turned up. If you would dwell there in that peace and charge it with your love and healing. If you would grant that I could be one of those who can bring this that I sense now into the room when other things are happening and other people are there. Oh, what a great gift that would be.