I have been told by people that I have what my mom used to call “a
case of the fidgets.” It’s hard for me to sit and do nothing. My body constantly want to move—fingers
drumming on tables, feet thumping on the floors, eyes running around the room
looking at anything and everything.
I’m not ashamed of it. I have never seen anything wrong with
it, except when I am praying. The
tendency of my thoughts to run in six directions at once makes it difficult to
keep them focused on God. When I am with
God I do not want to be distracted.
“Be still, and know
that I am God,” says the Psalmist.
Would that I could be still! How
quickly I can be distracted by a sound, sight, or a passing thought in my mind! These “spiritual fidgets” lead to worry,
anxiety, and needless temptation.
That’s why meditation is so important. To really meditate, I must focus my mind,
body, and emotions as well my thoughts.
Psalm 1 says
“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the
counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the way of sinners nor sits in the seat of
the scornful, but in God’s law he meditates day and night.”
To meditate on a
passage of Scripture is to study it so intently that we are filled with it—it
is our only thought.
There are many ways of doing this. We can say it aloud or write it over and over
until it becomes part of us. When we
fill our hearts and minds with a single thought from the Word, then it becomes
greater than our distractions.
Don’t take a large passage of Scripture at first. Take a
small one—a verse or two. Read it in
many translations until you have almost memorized it. God’s Word will drive out your daily
distractions.
Today, get in your quiet place and
meditate on one, two or all of these verses.
Say them aloud to yourself, at least ten times. Read them over and over and meditate upon
them. Let God show you what these verses
can mean to your heart.
God our souls are restless. How hard it is to rest in You. Let us find rest in You, and stillness in our souls.
In Jesus’ Name,
Amen
Psalm 46:10
Exodus 14:14
Zechariah 2: 13
As
a child upon its mother,
As
a leaf upon the tree
As
a turtle in the ocean
My
soul finds a place in thee.
Home
is more than where the heart is
Home
is where you feel at ease
And
you can be who you can be
Grace
is the entire home I need.
In
the peace of God I rest now
In
His love, I've found my place
In
the world's uncertain turnings
I
hold fast onto His grace.
BF
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