I felt the need to share this today…Definately for myself but perhaps it will resonate with someone else as well.

My Jesus Calling devotional points out the benefits of spending time in the presence of God. Being a “list” person, I figured I would list them for better recognition.

Benefits of Spending Time with God:

1. Emotional and physical healing

(I could end the list here frankly)

2. Experience a nearness to God

(Ever sat next to a King before??)

3. Faith is strengthened

4. Filled with Peace

(Why do I ever leave to sit elsewhere?)

5. Opened to receive many blessings

6. Cleansed by the Holy Spirit

7. Readied to be used by the Holy Spirit to accomplish more than you ever thought or imagined

I have been thinking alot about the verse to “be still and know that I am God”…other than these few short minutes in the morning, am I really being still enough often enough to not only know Him but to also hear Him?

This season crowds out the stillness,doesn’t it? And certainly is not quiet…

The season inside me is as distracting as the season around me as well…I have enough noise in my head vyying for my attention to fill up TWO parades!

I need to pay better attention to this list…and with the Lord’s help, work on my stillness.