In my last post I confessed that my goals for 2011 needed a bit of rearrangement as I took my goals and replaced my agenda with the simple, yet complicated, goal of glorifying God in everything I do this year.  I mentioned my Type A personality which has now risen again and demands that I DO something for God in light of my new goal aligned with HIS agenda.

To make this short and sweet: the “doing” that I must partake in is to soak in His presence before I do anything that remotely looks like a physical act of serving God or others. Essentially it might look like I’m not doing a darn thing, but in this “not doing” I’m partaking in the most important task we as Christians can participate in: sitting before the King in constant communication while praising Him and soaking up His glory.

I typed in the word, “soak” into a Bible search engine and found the New Living Translation Bible use the word in this one short verse with in Hebrews 6.  Read this metaphor about a farmer’s crop placing yourself in as the field.

Hebrews 6:8 When the ground SOAKS up the falling rain and bears a good crop for the farmer, it has God’s blessing.

Will you join me — a dry and weary crop…

barren of fruit

yearning for a chance to please our Farmer

as we soak in the sweet sweet rain

drop by drop

then, and only then, yield a harvest that warrants this response:

Well done, my good and faithful servant.