A Gentle Rebuke

     God is so good! He is sweet and loving! I was in prayer this morning. I prayed and was ready to jump up because I have a busy day today and I needed to get ready. I was then reminded of nightly conversations with my Mother. I can call her and not get a word IN! ( I love you mommy! See my smile?  LOL) She sometimes will totally dominate the "conversation" and I have to literally interrupt her to get a word in! After about 5 minutes of this, she is done and then will abruptly say "Well, I'm getting ready to get off this phone. You have a good night!" LOL! I'm left holding the phone like HUH?  I couldn't help but chuckle thinking about this. She doesn't do it all the time but when she does, of course I notice it. I didn't get to really TALK to her. I'll hang up shaking my head and still loving her all the same. The Lord bought to my attention that this is how I was being with Him! Forgive me Lord! We are to learn to TARRY in prayer. It is a CONVERSATION. We talk to God and He talks to us. We have to listen too. Instead, we go to pray, say what we think we need to say and OFF WE GO! We immediately shift our minds to our day instead of remaining meditative and focused on Him.  Imagine two chairs. You are sitting in one and The Lord in another. You "pray" or ask all these things of Him and then, you just get up and leave. How many times have we left Him "holding the phone"? He is a gentleman so He's not going to jump in and interrupt and make us listen to Him like I have to do with my mom sometimes..(again, love you mommy! See my smile? My teeth? I look like you! LOL! The Lord used you as an example so you can't hurt me when you see me.) We can't get so busy thinking about our day that we don't take time to get instructions from the one who made the day possible! He holds the instructions that are vital to our day! Let's take time to LISTEN.

BE BLESSED!