Ring, Ring, it's Jesus :)

Sometimes I think I MUST be an idiot.

The other day I was meeting up with one of my friends at a church she'd never been to before.  I got there before she did so I could (in theory) show her where we were going since I had been there more than she.  She called and I went out to the parking lot and couldn't find her.  Turns out she was waving frantically and I just wasn't paying attention.  At all. (kind of embarrassing, poor girl was jumping up and down and I still didn't see her)

I do that with Jesus all the time.  I know He's right beside me, I know He never leaves.  So when I can't feel Him around and when it seems like He's being quiet and is off doing more important things somewhere else, it's got to be me!  

As I've been reading this week, I can totally picture Him waving, trying to get my attention only He's not a parking lot away, He's not even two feet away, He's right in front of me and I'm still not paying attention.

I've spent a lot of time in the last few years doing a lot of good things.  I worked full time at a ministry, I've fed the homeless, led Bible studies, discipled younger girls, designed t-shirts for ministries, met with adult (aka OLD people's) Sunday School classes, gone to Africa and played with orphans, I've done it all.  And in it all, I put my head down to take on all those tasks and totally lost sight of Jesus- the reason I was doing all of those good things in the first place.  This week we read about how God is involved, how we can relax in His healing, how He wants to be central in our lives, how we can welcome challenging times because He is with us, and how He is the only One who can satisfy our desires.  Can you hear Him replying to everything I've been struggling with?  Kind of hit that one on the head.

Every time I pick up Jesus Calling, (I got first picked it up a few years ago), He speaks and works through it the same way.  It's always so relevant!  It's like God planned it that way or something ;)

Hope you all are having a blessed time with it.  Praying for you sisters!  See you Thursday!

Jordan