Day 7
Day 7 - ONE WEEK - what are we learning?
BEEP: I am at Community Group and we all get a chuckle when on the hour one beep is followed by a phone beeping ~ while someone's cell phone chimes with bird calls ~ and somone's watch goes off. Beep, chirp, ring, beep. We're doing it . . . The Soul Revolution. We are trying to engage with God every 60 minutes of every day.
I wish I could say this is easy but the truth is that sometimes it is easy and sometimes it is not. There are times when I am worshipping the Lord and the beep never went off ~ it just happened ~ I am there, in His presence; in my devotions or prayer time or in the sanctuary of a worship song my spirit is connecting to the Lord with. There are other times when the beep goes off but I don't hear it because I have left my timer attached to my purse instead of my belt loop and my purse is in the other room or I am so engaed with my own agenda that it never got through to me ... am I connecting with anybody yet?
What I am noticing is that I am thinking about my God more. . . and more . . . not an hourly habit yet... but I am hopeful. As I am connecting to Him I am discovering some things about my relationship with Him that I didn't think were so. That looks like this: Beep - "Oh God I am serving You, aren't You pleased?". Rather than a thought that is not performance oriented but that is praising the One who delights in me, His creation, not because of what I do...don't do...but because I am His child and He loves me...delights in me...is for me...has a plan and purpose for my life ... That's starting to look like this: BEEP: "Oh God, thank you that your Word reminds me that You chose me, gifted me for Your purposes, and that You will complete the work You have begun in me. Praise you Jesus. Praise you Lord. Thank you God. Keep my eyes on You I pray, off of me and on You. Praise You Jesus.".
I am so grateful to be on this journey together with you - the Body of Christ. Take us deeper Lord Jesus. Take us deeper.
In His Grip,
Lynn
3 comments:
for me im thinking of the beeps as less of and annoyance and more of a relief. alot of times when im in a boring class or taking a hard test the beep will go off and im reminded that god is with me at that moment and all the time.
-Paul
That is cool how a phone beep would fallow after the 1 hour beep. You totally conect with me about the worship thing, that has happened to me probably 2 times now. I think the hourly habit will come arround the 15-20 day mark for most people, I think I am almost to the hourly habit, it just takes some time.
One of my RPs said that for the first few days of the 60-60, she felt like she was sending "up" a blip of a response to God every time the beep went off - like shooting off a quick email or text message to God, saying, "Hey." She said that over the past few days, something changed, and now she's realizing that God is RIGHT HERE. Simple as it was, I thought that was one of the best stories I'd heard that night!
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