This week I am starting a new thing I like to call Monday Meditations. I invite you to add links to your website/blog that are devotional in nature, so that we might all encourage one another. Today's meditation or devotional is a poem I wrote some years ago during a time when I was purposely being quiet before the Lord. Rather than coming before Him with all my worries and prayer requests, I deliberately sat still and just listened - waiting for Him to speak. This poem is the result of that time of quiet reflection.
Be Still
If I close my eyes and remain perfectly still
will I be able to shut out the noise of the day? The barking dog across the street? My neighbour's children yelling? The drone of the dishwasher? Be STILL and know that I am God. How can I be still enough to hear You, O Lord? My mind is always racing. Thoughts pop into my head, random ideas that beg to be chased down. I am still, but there is too much noise. How do I HEAR you O Lord? Do I keep repeating Your name like a mantra? Will humming work, or scented candles? Do I search the Scriptures looking for signs that You are speaking only to me? How do I HEAR you? BE STILL and know that I am God. Is it in the waiting? How long do I give you before You will speak? One hour? Two? I have waited, yet I do not hear. BE STILL and know that I am God. I stepped outside and my ears were overwhelmed with noise from cars, children, dogs and lawnmowers. It is hard to focus inside my house. It is equally hard outside. And then I heard You. A still small voice. A gentle breeze that caressed my face. The leaves rustling in the trees, blowing a sweet sound of praise. A sunbeam piercing through a cloud, landing on my face with a warm, gentle kiss. Subtle touches that fill my heart till it is close to bursting with joy! No audible voice, but a presence that is unmistakable. It is not the stilling of my mind or the sounds around me that enable me to hear you. I hear You because I have pursued You and You love to be pursued. So, I will seek you in the morning and in the evening. I will talk to you throughout my stress-filled, noisy, busy days. And I will hear You because I am Your child and You are my God, my Father, my Saviour. My Friend. “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” (Psalm 46:10)
Please share your devotional website/blog links below. Let us encourage one another in the Lord.
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