Good morning…
I had gotten really lax and lazy, neglecting the daily task of transferring my morning posts onto my “sue2you” website. Since I began writing again to you on September 1st, following our “Breathe God Everywhere” Summertime Devotional, I neglected this essential, everyday task, a task which allows subscribers to scroll through old messages collectively, catching up at their leisure on posts they may have missed.
On Saturday, I spent eight straight hours copying and pasting one post at a time from my email to my website. Lacking a detail-oriented mind, logistics to me can be a nightmare, a duty I would rather avoid. But I have learned from experience now: the five minute copy-and-paste-transfer each day is a lot less cumbersome than an full eight hour chunk of time burdening a Saturday.
Isn’t this the way our walking and talking relationship with God is actually designed to grow? Instead of waiting for a full eight hour chunk of time to retreat into prayerful solitude, why don’t we develop the habit of talking with our Sustainer regularly throughout our normal day? Morning prayer wakes us from sleep. A noontime talk invites God into the dilemmas of our day. At night, we review our day in the gracious presence of our LORD. This relational rhythm gradually becomes our own. Eventually, our morning talk seeps into our noontime talk, which blends into our heart-to-Heart before bed. Overtime, our conversational relationship with the LORD feels natural, ongoing, seamless without end.
We…suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face…our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him (2 Corinthians 3:16-18, MSG),
Sue
