I'm Really Getting To Know You

This post is an extension of the last post because I wrote it and then I lived it...with You, Lord. 

Thank You for being with me today, You showed me in the most amazing way just how true every single thing I wrote about in my last post is.

 I had to have an interview over the phone and it was a very long and frankly boring interview- it was an hour and a half just holding to speak to someone! Once I was actually connected to speak with someone the young man interviewing me kept putting me on hold and it was several long periods of being put on hold. I would start to get frustrated and irritable to the point I was even jotting down notes about getting the representative's name so I could report him if we got disconnected while he was putting me on hold. But, I kept just feeling Your peace -- there were brief moments of frustration over the wait, but I just kept finding myself in peace. In Your peace...the peace that the world doesn't know. The peace that kept me calm. The peace that said, I never leave you, but if I am with you while you wait, and by the way, I am-- then let's enjoy the wait together. I want you to see every opportunity to engage with Me. I want to get acquainted with you in, just as you said yourself (Sarah), "the seemingly insignificant areas in life". 

Your peace not only calms me, but it stirs me at the same time. Only You can draw my heart toward You while in the middle of the most ordinary and uninteresting of daily duties. As I felt You tugging on my heart strings, it felt like You were saying, These idle moments don't have to be so, they can be a chance to get to know Me and our relationship with each other can grow and you can learn more about just how very close to you I actually am. We can interact with each other and we can fill our moments with powerful thoughts and prophetic visions of your amazing destiny in Me. 

I'd Like To Get To Know You

Getting to know my Savior more deeply while seeking Him during (seemingly) everyday surface stuff is one of my desires for this coming season...

“Yes, ...I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege (the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth, and supreme advantage) of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him [of perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more fully and clearly]... And that I may [actually] be found and known as in Him, not having any [self-acheived] righteousness..."

(Philippians 3:8,9 AMPC). The more recent (AMP) version says it like this in verse 10, "...That I may know Him [experientially, becoming more thoroughly acquainted with Him, understanding the remarkable wonders of His person more completely]..." 

I particularly love the way the scripture speaks of getting to know Him more deeply and intimately and that nothing compares to Him and coming to understand the wonders of His person. It speaks of having a supreme advantage when you know Him! Wow, when you have an advantage, that's a great thing, but when you have a supreme advantage that goes beyond boring or humdrum. 

I love falling in love with You all over again, Jesus.
I love falling in love with You in the small things, in the places where monotonous and mundane live and excitement and enchantment rarely abide. I love discovering that You actually do want to come into the seemingly insignificant areas of my life, that You want to walk with me through the boring necessaries of my day to day. I believe You want me to see how amazing my daily routine can actually be when I become aware and stay in the awareness of Your longing and desire to always be there with me. And, You are perfectly content to walk the day to day because it is me You are walking with; that is just how much You actually enjoy me and my company. You want to show me that You're already waiting for me on the other side of tedious tasks and at the same time, in Your amazing omnipresence You haven't left my side. You're walking with me through it all- big, small and everything in between; showing me and growing me for Your mighty purposes. 

There is something so exciting about knowing that when I ask You to help me get through something uninteresting or maybe even unpleasant and You show up for me in a really
big way or maybe in a very small way with big implications- it teaches me that joy can be today, right now. I can experience the living God personally and if I'm truly engaging with Him all through my day then He can and will make the mundane majestic! 

Just imagine...the God of all creation orchestrating the events of my day in such a way that brings me good and Him glory; even if the task at hand is less than exciting, there is meaning in everything I do and I love that this verse in 1 Corinthians 10:31(NLT) affirms that, "So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." You're right there with me, showing me how to bring You glory. Even when what I'm doing has no earthly glory or appeal to it, I need to remember that the glory shines its brilliance in heaven where it belongs...with You, Jesus.  ~