As I awoke today, I saw an email from a new friend, Phillip Baker from Texas, who writes daily motions or short sayings for the day. Whilst the note spoke of Kingdom Principals, it was his headline of "Daily Motions" that got me thinking. Specifically as I was walking to the toilet to consider a daily motion, please forgive the pun, whilst there I started to meditate again on the word Wait.
This word wait has now been on my mind for some time, in fact well over two years ago I felt the Holy Spirit drawing me away to wait on Him. As I have quoted previously from Isa 40:31 I will not re-iterate the meaning of this word more than to say it means to entwine or entangle once self and to pursue the Holy Spirit who brings the strength and the power we need to be all that Christ intends us to be.
Getting back to my daily motion, when we find ourselves in the predicament that we all find either daily as it is with most or not so often as it can unfortunately be, we are forced into a situation that simply requires us to WAIT for the bodily functions to run their cause. It doesn't matter if we don't have the time nor the patience or even the desire to do so, we simply have no choice but to wait for everything to run its cause. Its only when all has finished that we can move on with the rest of our day.
I see similarities with how the Holy Spirit would draw us away each day to wait for Him. Whilst the business of our day or work duties may continually be calling for us we must learn to allow our time in waiting on the Holy Spirit to run its cause. A friend of mine began to discuss the practise of soaking. Soaking according to various authors is simply taking time to relax in God's presence and hear the voice of His Spirit reveal new things to us. I made the comment that soaking sounds a lot like meditating on the word as the Lord commanded to Joshua in chapter three. Once again whether it be soaking or meditating on the word of God speaks to us about being drawn away from the business of life to wait on the Holy Spirit and to allow time for the Holy Spirit to reveal new and wonderful principals of the Kingdom of God to us.
Be blessed as you wait on Him
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