Call to me

“Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’ (Jeremiah 33:3, NIV)

The Lord loves it when we take time out to commune with Him. Just as we miss our children when they grow older and become busy with life, when once they were at our feet pulling and tugging for our attention, the Lord longs to spend time with his children. Oh how he misses us as we become too busy to seek him first. 

     A missionary some years ago, returning from Southern Africa, gave a
     description of the work which had been accomplished there, through the
     preaching of the gospel, and among other things he pictured a little incident of
     which he had been an eye-witness. He said that one morning he saw a
​     converted African chieftain sitting under a palm tree with his Bible open before
     him. Every now and then he cast his eyes on his book and read a passage,
     and then he paused and looked up a little while, and his lips were seen to be
     in motion. Thus he continued alternately to look down on the Scriptures and to
     turn his eyes upward towards heaven. The missionary passed by without
     disturbing the good man, but a little while after he mentioned to him what he
     had seen, and asked him why it was that sometimes he read, and sometimes
     he looked up? The man replied,— “I look down to the book, and God speaks
     to me, and then I look up in prayer, and speak to the Lord, and in this way we
     keep up a holy talk with each other.” Charles Spurgeon

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.” (Revelation 3:20, KJV)

As we are reading our daily devotions, let us make this a carved out special time, without distraction or rush. This should be a time where we can sit for a while and commune with our God. He longs for this time with us.

GiGi❤️

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