Have you ever been talking with someone
who seems like they’re trying to be polite
but they don’t really want to talk to you?
Like they have some place else they’d rather be
or someone else they’d rather be talking with?
and they’re either half listening or they’re in a hurry or both?
Don’t rush with God
Sometimes I just want to get my scriptures read
or put in my allotted prayer time and go on with my day
God has feelings too
Don’t rush with God
Give Him your whole self,
the best of you that you can give
Even if you feel the need to shorten the time
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot:
I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm,
and neither cold nor hot,
I will spue thee out of my mouth. Revelation 3:15-16
Be fully with Him while you’re with Him
and remember it is an honor to know Him
and an honor to be known by Him
I read the book of Jeremiah
I realized after I had finished it,
that I couldn’t tell you what had happened in that book
except for bits and pieces
I had read along with it while listening to it,
so I got double points
But it meant little to nothing since I wasn’t really absorbing it
Just trying to put a feather in my cap,
impress myself, impress God
Didn’t work
I’m rereading it
And I’m making myself go back
and reread it if I’m not fully paying attention
I seem to have a tendency
to read without really paying attention to what I am reading
Sometimes, I have to reread it more than once,
not counting my noble reading and listening that happened before
I make myself reread it again because I can’t describe what I just read,
my mind had been wandering to other things
Rudeness or humanness, or both, either way, I redo
The book of Jeremiah is filled with God’s feelings
that He shared with Jeremiah and then to the Israelites
He describes how hurt He is
by the way the Israelites have strayed and served other gods:
My bowels, my bowels!
I am pained at my very heart;
my heart maketh a noise in me;
I cannot hold my peace,
because thou hast heard, O my soul,
the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. Jeremiah 4:19
How could I brush over that?
The fact that God’s very heart was revealed
It makes me desire more
to hear more,
to know more,
to understand more
to be trusted with more of His heart
Yeah, rushing with God means we’re missing out
on very beautiful, meaningful things,
far more precious than anything we can find here on earth
Listen to what the Lord is wanting to show you