From Lyn Woodruff, Women's Prayer Reflections Texting Group.
Ash Wednesday 2018: When Lent and Valentine’s Day Collide❤️
“Be still, and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
Many followers of Christ will say, "I never hear God's voice" and believe that to be true.
That is a belief designed to rob, cheat, and destroy your freedom and joy from receiving all of the spiritual blessings that God desires for you!
First of all, God has spoken to ALL of us through His written Word in the Bible.
Second, he has given us His Holy Spirit to counsel us and guide us into all truth.
Third, God has given us the community of the saints (God speaks through the wise counsel of others).
Fourth, God has given us common sense (a good mind to test and discern what is from , and of Him).
Fifth, in conjunction with using our minds and seeking wise counsel, God provides circumstances that guide us as to what His desires are for us. In other words, God will open doors or shut doors to reveal the desires that He places within us, according to His good purpose.
Sixth, we must be STILL and know that He is God.
This last way to hear God's voice is the most forgotten way, and is most likely at the root of why we believe that we never hear God's voice.
With all the noise and busy-ness in our lives taking up all of the bandwidth, and without being still, sitting contemplatively in God's presence, is it any wonder that God's voice is hard to hear?
Yet, He always graces us with Another Start!
The season of Lent gives us another start to understand that “we ARE the desiring of God. That the God of the universe desires through us, and longs for Life and Love through us!”
Which is precisely why YOUR Life is so precious and uniquely important!
You were created to be the flesh and blood vessel carriers of God’s desires to help HIM reconcile and restore everything back to Him. Col. 1:20.
And EVERYTHING means EVERYTHING!
It means restoring the beauty of the creation and everything that God has given life to...
to live a life worthy of our calling in the face of a world and culture that tries to deaden our soul's union with God, and seeks to align our loyalties in power, success, money, ego and control instead.
Since these forces and seductions are the predominant treble and bass noises that surround us, we have much to ponder and BE STILL about in Lent about what God desires of us...
On this Ash Wednesday, which starts with a smudge of dust, let us pray for the desire to desire! You are His workmanship, uniquely crafted for the purposes and good works that God has prepared in advance for you to do. Ephesians 2:10
How does that dust settle upon you, to give up your control and your own ego, to let God’s divine love and presence become your ego?
“Because though you are dust and will return to dust, though everything you know may be burnt to ashes.... God’s presence....”can re-collect you, remake you, resurrect you and revive you with eternity.” (Quotes from Richard Rohr[Wondrous Encounters] and Ann Voskamp)
El Shaddai, give me this day the desire to desire what you want me to desire....re-collect me, remake me, resurrect me, revive me with eternity! Let me be still long enough to hear your voice and to be filled with your Divine presence and Love. Through the victory that we have in Jesus to live free and with joy, I give you all thanks and praise for every spiritual blessing that you desire me to have-and open up to your Word, voice and presence of ❤️ today🙏🏻
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