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A Prayer for When You're Way Too Busy By Mary Southerland
And He said unto them, 'Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while' (Mark 6:31, KJV).
There is an antidote to busyness in Scripture. It is the simple idea of getting daily time to be with God - daily time just to be with Him - daily time to be quiet - daily time to listen for His voice above all others. How do we pull that off? Here is a challenge for you. Spend 15 minutes a day for one month getting alone with God. Find a chair, a quiet place. Do three things in that time.
Stopping. Psalm 46:10 tells us "Be still and know that I am God." I need a few minutes each day to stop and be still! I know that – just like you know that. But if we do not schedule it, and practice it, it will not happen. We were not made to run non-stop 24 hours a day. We were made to stop and be still and know God.
Centering. Psalm 37:7 commands us to "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him." Our posture while we are having this quiet time with God needs to be that of waiting. Waiting for Him to speak. Waiting for Him to show up. Waiting for Him to set the agenda.
The Quakers of old practiced a concept called "centering down" or "spinning off." They discovered that when they got still to spend time with God, their thoughts would race to random thoughts such as errands to run, work to be done, etc. So they would capture that thought, make a plan to deal with it later, and spin it off. (I keep a pad and pencil handy to jot down whatever random thought pops up.) They would then turn their mind back toward centering down and being still. |
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