With a smart phone, which most people have now, you can do
just about everything. You can order a meal, buy an outfit, listen to music,
keep in contact with friends, take pictures, work from home, type a letter,
talk to friends and family, read the Bible and check the news and weather.
Pretty amazing. Amazing more, you can walk around and never even talk face to
face with another person and get all this done!
I’m not making fun of smart phones, I have one and so does my husband.
We find them to be very convenient. With my car the phone connects to a speaker
and I have hands free use while driving.
Just about everything in our lives is instant. But there’s a
cost to it all. We now pay more for our phones than we paid for our entire
month’s bills when we were first married.
We now struggle when we’re in a “dead zone” for fear someone might try
to reach us or we might need to reach out to someone else or check the weather,
etc.
Although smart phones have given us instant access to so
much information and so many people, we haven’t really found more time. Just
like other time savers, it has caused us to become even busier. Our lives are
hectic, harried and fast paced. Often we find that the very things that were
meant to help us have actually hindered us. We get frustrated when the microwave
goes for 30 seconds!
God speaks to my heart: It is in quietness and time alone
that you will find your most needed connection and that is with Me. I AM the
answer to all your problems, but you must take time to spend it with Me. I know
your situation, I know your time constraints and I know your heart. If you will
stop and carve out time in My presence I will slow your racing heart, calm your
racing mind and give you peace – real peace. As you spend time with Me you will
find real answers that you have been anxiously searching for and you will be
able to relax and rest. The more you take time to spend with Me, the more you
will hear from Me. I will help you, I will guide you, I will speak to your
heart about every other thing that is going on in your life. In My presence you
will find out how to make it all work, put it all together and have time to do
what you have to do. And My presence causes you to have more time because I
redeem and bless time spent with Me.
Oh beloved, maybe it’s time to pull over. Take a rest stop
from the frantic pace of life. Enjoy time with God. Although everything you do
is important to your life, it is also very important that you slow down and
rest - Rest in His presence - Rest in His grace - Rest in His power. God never
hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work. His life saving
plans are found in His Word and they will sustain you wherever you must go,
whatever you must do.
God loves you and He’s for you and that’s what gives you
rest and peace for your busy life.
Matthew 11:28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are
heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and
relieve and refresh your souls.] AMP
Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to
God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension , will guard your
hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. NAS
Isaiah 30:15 This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One
of Israel, says: “Only in returning to me and resting in me will you be saved.
In quietness and confidence is your strength…
Matthew 6:33 But seek first His kingdom and His
righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
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