"This time is for you, not for Me”

 

This is my first writing in 2015. I am determined to write personally every day, even if only a few sentences. This is one of my new resolutions within what seems a new beginning for my life, given the last few years. It is hard to know where to begin. So, rather than going over the recent past, I will begin with my conversation with God this morning.

I slept in late, given I stayed up later than usual to see the New Year in with Pitbull on FOX in Miami. It seemed a new celebration of our city and I actually found myself connecting positively to Miami like a favorite sports team, after feeling more and more disconnected with many aspects of our city over the past couple of years. I had been feeling much excitement and joyful expectation of the new year and this seemed to fit in with my forward positive outlook for my life this coming year of 2015.

I did not want to get up so late but I had not spent all of my quiet time with God. I felt a bit guilty about rushing past my usual longer time with Him. I said to myself: “well, actually I have spent time praising Him and thanking Him for all the blessings in my life, lifting up others in prayer and reading through several, if not all, of my usual daily devotions. Had not I done enough?”

There was a loud response: “This time is for you, not for Me. You receive from Me. I do not need this time with you. This is not an obligation, but an opportunity to receive more love, power, and grace from Me. Everything you do “in My name”; every thought, every feeling, every action, every word said in reflection upon Me and with intention to serve and follow Me, no matter how trivial, or even distasteful, if done with thought of Me, is blessed and produces a blessing for you and for others. Even if you are behaving ‘wrongly’, in anger, resentment, impatience, judgment, etc., if given over to me (with repentance) will turn into a blessing for you and others involved. Take all thoughts, words, actions, choices, etc., even the daily physical functions of life, like eating and sleeping, and present them to Me at the meeting place of our connection, the altar of the sanctuary in your spirit’s heart, your holy tent like Moses, where I reside and you reside in Me, and I will use it to produce blessings for you and for others, always. That is what I do! I love you and all creation and want only the best for all my creation as an outcome of all things done, said, thought, felt, and reflected through who you are and who you are becoming to be in Me.”