In my relationship with the Father, He communicates to me through the verses and passages and hymns that I encounter in my daily studies, and he was doing so even in the years when my study of His Word was NOT a daily thing. He has taught me that there can be, and needs to be, a part of my or your mind that is always turned toward Him, like the petals of a sunflower.
If the foundation of my mind is set, like sunflowers are, perpetually aware of God and my need for Him, there will be that portion that is tuned to Him even as I or we conduct the business of daily living. And through that little portal, that petal-to-the-sun (Son), the Father wafts His presence into my mind and soul. It matters not at all that my conscious attention is focused on work or planning or eating: he is always – always – speaking something to each one of us. The “failure to communicate” is, likewise, always on our end of it. But if we let ourselves be open, that “little idea” will pop right through the clutter of ordinary situations and we will find ourselves wondering where that thought came from.
This is the crucial point. Do we pause to consider that God might be telling us something, and give it the consideration it merits, or do we say, “Hm, that was odd,” and mentally dive right back into the routine? If we lose the moment in “the usual things,” we have lost something more valuable than we could have imagined. This is not because we might have become rich and famous if we had followed the idea into the presence of God through our own awareness. It’s because we would have accepted the enrichment of our relationship with our Father, a gift that is beyond comparison to any value this world can offer.
How sad, to think of rejecting a gift that our holy God purchased with His Son’s blood. Is someone saying, “I’m not rejecting Jesus! I was just busy! It was just one little thought!” And this is all true, in one context. If we are content to follow Jesus from a distance, beyond the hubbub of that facet of living that non-believers or nominal believers call “life,” it’s no big deal that we could assume that God isn’t really with us anymore, that we can look good and behave fairly well and that’s the Christian way of life.
The problem with that is that our Father actually IS with us and when we reject His presence, we cut ourselves off from real contact with the Triune God Who transcends time and space to BE with us. When we choose living without that intimate pipeline to the Father, we are choosing death in at least part of our lives. But that’s the negative…
Choose life! Stop! Wonder about that “little impulse” and mull and consider what the introduction of a new purpose between you and Jesus could mean! It can open up vistas of possibilities that you would never have imagined – a peacefulness in you in circumstances that are driving everyone else crazy – you can find joy in tiny incidents, beauty in the glorious magnificence of creation, laughter that will bubble up from a soul that echoes the bliss of Heaven.
All this from listening just once to a nudge from the Father? Yep! Think of it like walking past the cavern in which Sinbad found the treasures, hearing the magic word to say to open it all up, and keeping right on walking. Looking back, you would see it as a whisper that “probably was just the wind,” instead of a missed opportunity for immense riches. The first time you stop and accept His thought can become the beginning of a new and fresh walk with Jesus as you step into a lifetime of living and loving contact with Almighty God.
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