Charging
Seek and you shall find…Matthew 7:7
When my husband and I were in Greece, we brought adapters to make sure we had what we needed to charge our phones and all the other gadgets we had. We started in Athens and all of our chargers worked and we had the right adapters. When we got to Santorini, we found that only one of our adapters was working because they only had one specific size in our hotel. This meant that my husband and I were constantly sharing this one adapter.
One morning while I was sitting with God, I was giving thanks and praise to Him when the scripture that says “…seek me you shall find me” landed in my spirit. I thought about the ways and opportunities we have to seek Him. Prayer, worship, reading the word and sitting with Him is what came to my mind. At that moment I was just sitting with Him. I said, “God, sometimes I am not sure about this sitting thing because it can feel like I am not receiving”. He reminded me of my phone and how often we were both trying to get our phones charged.
He said, “All the phone does is sit on the charger. The phone just sits, and because it is connected to the source it gets charged and is ready for the next time it is needed. How about you? How often do you charge? How long do you sit to be charged? Can you sit with Me, which is your source, as long as your phone sits on its source?” I thought about how long I let my phone sit on the charge. Sometimes it is all night because it can be completely dead. Other times it would be for 30 minutes to an hour depending on how much additional power it needed.
I get up every morning to sit with God but sometimes that morning time is just not enough. I know when I am not completely charged. I know when my heart is still yearning for God. God drops that yearning in us because He has more to say to us and He needs us to stay and listen. I am learning not to leave His presence until I am fully charged. The Holy Spirit said to me “Try to sit quietly with me every time you charge your phone”.
Every time we sit with God we are seeking Him. We will find Him. We will be charged up and ready for whatever is to come. It does not take a long time to hear from God but what I have noticed over the years is that God stretches us. Each time you are with Him, He puts the desire in you to want more of Him because He wants to give you more. So your time will be extended. You will not get from Him…the intimacy you are looking for if you do not take the time to sit with him.
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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