
After sitting silently in adoration for 10 minutes yesterday, I began to get restless that I didn't feel very connected to God.
What was I doing wrong? Was I not paying attention?
Then I realized I had fallen into a trap that I coach people how not to fall into!
It just shows how we need a system to avoid from the never-ending temptations that try to pull us away from God and put the focus on ourselves.
Recovery time
I reminded myself that God is always closer to us than we are to ourselves. His connection with us is never, ever a problem.
The psalmist put it this way:
Where can I go from your spirit? From your presence, where can I flee?
If I ascend to the heavens, you are there; if I lie down in Sheol, there you are.
If I take the wings of dawn and dwell beyond the sea,
Even there your hand guides me, your right hand holds me fast” (Ps. 130:7-10).
And I remembered that God is not in the business of fulfilling my expectations at every moment.
He is in the business of fulfilling his Divine Will.
And his will is for our salvation.
So he will give us in every moment exactly what we need.
Scripture says: “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, my thoughts higher than your thoughts” (Is. 55:9).
And God’s thoughts—his plans for us—are always more glorious than we can imagine.
It comes down to trust
If warm fuzzies are not on the menu today, we can trust that he is still working powerfully in our soul to transform us into the likeness of himself.
After this reality-check, I stopped feeling restless and started to feel grateful. As I thanked him and praised him for being the glorious God he is, and for looking on me with so much love and mercy, he reminded me that gratitude is a balm for any pain we feel in our body or soul.
Gratitude plugs us into the eternal reality of God’s care and is a great way to find a connection with him.
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