keep on soaking!

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I have bronchitis.  Boo!  Although the bronchitis effects my ability to speak and not my ability to type, I still need to make this quick because I’m fading fast.  I couldn’t help but take a moment to encourage you to keep on SOAKING.  I read this last week in My Upmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers.  It smacked me in my face and I hope it does the same for you, too.  {smiles}

Beware of anything that competes with loyalty to Jesus Christ.  The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.  It is easier to serve than to be drunk to the dregs.  The one aim of the call of God is the satisfaction of God, not a call to do something for Him.  We are not sent to battle for God, but to be used by God in His battlings.  Are we being more devoted to service than to Jesus Christ?  {My Upmost for His Highest: January 18th, page 18}

Keep soaking, friend.

Soaking and Drying

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**Please take a look the previous posts in this brief series for the New Year prior to reading any further.

As I’ve spent time soaking in God’s presence — immerse in the exploration of His glory, an interesting cycle bears itself.  One moment I sit at His throne in communion by thought and deed — soaking — then the next moment I step out of the reality of God’s authority over every part of my life.  The reality of who He is in relation to my minute by minute mundane routine in which moments before I completely soaked in, dries away as I step out of the bath of His glory and into the false reality of self-centered living. Continue Reading »»

Rearranging, Doing, Soaking

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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. Continue Reading »»