God — He who chose us before we existed, He who wrote our names in the Lamb’s book of life, He who loves us with an unimaginably rich love — He is the one who created space for us when He created the world.
And now this infinite, omnipotent God invites us into His very throne room, to talk and listen. He invites us to feast on His word and experience His love, guidance, wisdom — His very character.
All this is what Christians sometimes call, very inadequately, a “quiet time.” Or perhaps, even less descriptively, “devotions.” But we can be devoted to anything. We can be quiet at any time. And many non-Christians understand the benefit of taking a time of quiet contemplation. But what we are talking about here is so much more.
Our perspective is too small
Our perspective is too small on this time with God that all Christians are encouraged to undertake. It lends itself to becoming a to-do list item, and when it’s a to-do list item, our tendency is to check it off as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Read today’s devotional thought, check. Grab our prayer list, check check. Read the prescribed number of Bible verses or chapters, check check check. (Have you ever finished reading and realized you don’t know what you just read because your mind was elsewhere?) […]
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