Martha welcomed Jesus
into her home. Mary sat at His
feet. Each part is crucial, but
after we invite Him in, do we stop to listen to what He has to say or quickly go
on to our next "household" task?
He has something to tell us, to share with us, secrets and dreams to
spill out, perspective to give, and joy to unpin.
If our prayer time is
scant or all our own voice talking, if our knowledge of Him is formed between
our ears and neatly filed but doesn’t reach our heart, if we see others having
a vibrant life with God that we don’t quite understand and aren’t sure we even
want, we can ask Him to help us.
He is really good at stirring coals when the flames have faltered into
lumps that don’t offer light or heat.
But we also need to position ourselves to receive what we’ve asked
for.
If you’d like to be
hungrier for God, ask Him to begin to reveal the wonder and greatness of who He
is and how He works, then watch and listen and read His story…the one in the
book and the one being written in lives currently walking the planet. God is on the move. We can let Him make His home inside our
lives, so that we will be a walking piece of evidence with a bouquet of our own
stories of how He has lived with and led, and where every daisy will have an
odd-number of petals. He most
definitely loves us.
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