When I was growing up my mom would be in the kitchen getting dinner ready and I would usually be in the living room watching TV. Many times my mom would call out to me “what do you want to drink with dinner” or some other question regarding the dinner she was preparing. I would shout back “what did you say?” she would ask me the same question, this time a little louder. I was still not able to hear her. We repeated this until finally in frustration and a big dramatic sigh, I would get up and walk into the kitchen to find out what she wanted and usually it was something that could have waited to be answered.
Sometimes I believe this is the scenario we play over and over with God. He is calling out to us, but we have so many noisy distractions around us and are living in the other room we never hear Him. Only when we get up from where we are & go to where He is do we understand what He is trying to say to us. Often times we are the ones shouting at Him all of our requests, but we aren’t close enough to hear His answer.
Living at the footstool of Jesus, means we are so close to Him that He could whisper to us & we could hear Him. Which often times He does as a still small voice (1Kings 19:12). We can also whisper back to Him our hopes, dreams, stresses, challenges, frustrations, or our worship and He is there to hear it and you KNOW that He has. When you are that close to someone, you can hear the inflection in their voice & read their facial expressions. That is how close Jesus wants to be with us. Listen to His words in the Bible & imagine how He said them to whom He was speaking or how He is speaking them to you.
Many times we need prayers answered or direction for our lives and get frustrated when we think He hasn’t answered us, when we are the ones in the other room far from Him and distracted.
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