Reflect
TAKING TIME
We live in a fast paced world where time seems to fly past us each day and we seem to not have enough of it. Yet daily time with God must become a foundational component of our lives. It must and we must take time for it. Why? To be able to hear, see, and know about God and what His plan is for us, and this world in which we live. God cares for you and He wants to communicate with you.
The selfsame moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Sometimes it feels as if we are alone but that is not so. Even if every human seems to have abandoned you, God knows everything about you and is just a prayer away. Yet uttering this prayer takes faith, and it may take patience.
Luke 18:1-8 - And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”