The other day I lost my keys, was late to work, and tore the house apart trying to find where I left them. They weren’t in my typical tray I usually leave them nor were they up in my room or at my desk. It wasn’t until running up and down the stairs that I heard a light jingle and wondered where that was coming from. Then in donned on me: I was wearing the same shorts from the previous day and my keys were in the cargo pocket. They were always with me; I just forgot that I was carrying them.
I wonder if this is how Jesus feels when I try so hard to hear Him speak to me or get direction on some big decision and I tear the house of my soul apart trying to get an answer from Him, but nothing seems to come. It is not until I slow down and take that moment to listen to that gentle jingle of the keys, that simple voice that is not too quiet to tune out but not too loud that it overpowers everything else.
I have to want His voice enough that I will seek it out. Usually, the seeking comes in me asking Him to make the Scriptures come alive. I have a very hard time reading any book and in the morning, the Bible is the ultimate cure for insomnia as I fall back asleep by the second stanza of the Proverb I’m reading. But as I have been asking God to make the Bible more personal and directed to my life, it’s been amazing what I’ve found (let alone the ability to stay awake!).
There’s a guy I disciple and we typically use different spiritual books to prompt conversation and spiritual growth on specific topics, but currently we put other books aside and decided that each week we’d read the same sections in the Bible and let our conversation be about what those Scriptures meant to us right now, in our daily lives. Matthew 7:7 says that if we ask, it will be given; seek, we’ll find and what we’ve found out is that Jesus comes to us. If you draw near to Jesus, He promises to draw near to you.
My soul longs for one thing and only one thing can satiate this need…it is you, God.
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