Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day ( Thursday 1/8/09)

In The Still Of The Night...

Psalm 139:17-18 (Amplified Bible)
17) How precious and weighty also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18) If I could count them, they would be more in number than the sand. When I awoke, [could I count to the end] I would still be with You.

From the time I have been very young I did not sleep through the night. I would wake up at 2, 3 or 4 in the morning and would not be able to easily find my way back into sleeps path. As I have grown older and grown in God's grace and in relationship with God I understand why I awaken in the middle of the night. I have plenty of friends that when they were younger and wilder would sneak out in the middle of the night to meet up with friends or with their significant other at that time. It was them being able to steal away in the middle of the night and spend time with those they loved or thought so much of at that time, that made them risk all to do so. That too is why I am awakened in the middle of the night.

I have found that God loves me so much, that He desires to spend time with me, just like a star struck lover. He desires my undivided attention and to know that He can share with me secrets and His precious promises. But often life is so noisy and hectic that our minds and hearts are unavailable and that our hours, days and moments are filled with living and often we forget the one who provides life. We are so preoccupied with anything and everything that it takes our focus from the one who should be our center focus. Hence for those of us who really desire God and love Him and are connected to Him, we can hear the beckoning of loves sweet melody in the still of the night. We hear God calling to us, get up and come away with me. Come and spend these precious moments with me before your day begins again or something comes and takes you from me.

What a precious and honored place when God calls unto you and I; when He loves us enough and we love Him enough to know that anytime is the right time to be with our Jesus, even when it is in the still of the night!