Devotional thoughts - Lent 2013 - day 32

I was reminded of a phrase that came into my head the other day in reading today’s God Calling devotional:

My children, I am here beside you. Draw near in spirit to Me. Shut out the distractions of the world. I am your Life, the very breath of your soul. Learn what it is to shut yourself in the secret place of your being, which is My secret place too.

 

True it is, I wait in many a heart, but so few retire into that inner place of the being to commune with Me. Wherever the soul is, I am. Man has rarely understood this. I am actually at the center of every man's being, but, distracted with the things of the sense-life, he finds Me not.

 

Do you realize that I am telling you truths, revealing them, not repeating oft-told facts. Meditate on all I say. Ponder it. Not to draw your own conclusions, but to absorb Mine.

 

All down the ages, men have been too eager to say what they thought about My truth, and so doing, they have grievously erred. Hear Me. Talk to Me. Reflect Me. Do not say what you think about me. My words need none of man's explanation. I can explain to each heart.

 

Make Me real, and leave Me to do My own work. To lead a soul to Me is one thing, to seek to stay with it to interpret mars the first great act. So would it be with human intercourse. How much more then, when it is a question of the soul, and Me, its Maker, and only real Spirit that understands it.

 

"In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness
and in confidence shall be your strength." - Isaiah 30:15

 

“I am your Life…”  The phrase that had occurred to me was, “Christ is your life.”  I found reference to this in part of Colossians 3:4, which says, “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.”  This I will meditate on, that Christ is my life…

 

… and my journey with Him continues …