Be Still my soul, my heart be still, and know you are God.

Psalm 131.2

But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child is my soul within me.

How hard is it to find time to be calm and letting go of all other distractions in life. It's easy to be too occupied by either some sort of activities or of stuff that is total meaningless in the long run. But the truth is that it is good for us to just be quiet, and place our worries or accusations on God. He can listen to everything that we want to say to him. He also wants to do more than listen, he wants to speak to us, from his loving heart towards us.

It's important to find time to be alone with God, so that we can hear his calm gentle voice speak to us. Specially in days with so much going on, we need this more. But there is a fight in us, just as with the child to become proper weaned, it's a process going on in our lives to let things go, and just seek fellowship with God.

God want us to grow spiritually, and not remain a baby the rest of our lives. To do that, we must first of all invite him in to our lives, but we must also seek him on a daily basis, and want to become more like him, and be in his presence.

God bless you!

Take a good look at yourself!

James 1.22-24

"Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like." (MSG)

Jesus don't give us suggestions, He gives us commands! It's up to us if we either want to obey Him or not, or just treat his instructions as mere suggestions, only obeying if it does not cost to much.

 

Whatever He has told us to do, it's never a better way than obeying His call. He has called us all to go out and share the good news, the gospel, and pray for our neighbours to get reconciled with God. Let us take Him on his word. 

"But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do." (v. 25) (NIV)

When we obey him, we become more like Jesus, and we become more the way God planned for us to be. When we live in fellowship with God, and learn to trust Him more, and also trust Him enough to obey Him, whatever he wants of us, it produces joy in our lives, because that is what we are called to do. Then you will then learn more of, whom God is, and then you get to know yourself in a deeper way. Because God's ways are much greater and higher than our ways, and He knew us before we even was born.