There is great benefit to just being with someone. I love that my husband and I can be together all the time now that we are married. I mean, of course, we have to go to work everyday but from the very moment we wake up, we are together. When we come home from work, we are together. Neither of us has to drive any given amout to get to the other and we never have to say good bye in order to say good night. It's a wonderful thing after so many months of our engagement spent parting company each night.
Every night when we get home we take a few minutes just to embrace and let the day wash away. Sometimes it only takes a few moments. Other times it seems to take forever to get my heart to come home and rest. So much of the business of the day attaches itself to me and begins to leach out the life that I long to hoard for our time together. When I find my spot, that place in his arms I begin to relax and those cares and worries and distractions drop off and melt away. Once again I am home and the things that matter the most regain their rightful position.
This is what time with Father does too. Did you know that there is a special place in His heart just for you? Your own spot? And whenever you want you can go to that spot and He will embrace you and I guarantee that if you stay there long enough the cares and worries and distractions of life will drop off of you and His love will wash them away. You can find your place in the Heart of God. Just take the time to embrace Him and be still.
Psalm 46:10 tells us to do just that - to be still and know that He is God. Being still is difficult but we must contend for it! For it is in that secret place of stillness that He will reveal Himself to us. He longs for us to know Him deeper and more intimately. He desires for our relationship to grow. Just as my relationship with my Husband began as friendship, warmed into companionship and boiled into intimacy, so God desires that the friendship He shares with His people become something more - something deeper - something far more intimate. He longs to share His heart with His beloved. What a concept when you understand that YOU are that beloved one! Be still and know.
Know that He is God. This has so often meant to me that He wants me to see how big He is and how powerful He is so that I won't have to be worried or afraid. But now it goes much deeper. He is God and God is the lover of my soul. God is my Creator and the One who cherishes me as His own. God is my Father Who loves me, His daughter. His heart is toward me. It is vital to know this. This gives me life. This gives me purpose. This gives me peace and rest. What good is it to know how powerful He is if I do not believe that He would use that power on my behalf? How many damsels in distress, turmoil and danger are comforted into peace and hope simply by the arrival of their hero? Every single one of them that knows they are loved by that Hero.
So relax. Take the time to be still.
And stay there until you are finally at home in the heart of God.
