Have you ever tried to get someone’s undivided attention and
wished you didn’t have to go to so much effort in order for them to stop what
they are doing and focus their attention on you? I would guess that most of us
have had this experience with family members. On the other hand, we have
probably also been the guilty party who did not stop and give someone else the
attention they were seeking.
It feels good to know we have someone’s attention. I thought
about this lately in regard to my relationship with the Lord and if it is
possible for me to have His undivided attention.
I will admit that I do feel that I have God’s attention. As if He is in the room with me, or beside me
in my car or when I take a walk.
That He hears me even though I am just one in millions, yet He knows me.
He hears my conversation, He hears my prayers. My thoughts
and prayers and words aren’t just hitting the ceiling. I have His attention.
I love the way we can have an individualized one on one
personal relationship with God.
This is a mystery. How His Spirit inside us works this, His
Spirit that is placed in each of us at the point of salvation. His Holy Spirit
works this mystery and so much more.
This mystery assures me that I have His attention.
He has wanted ours all along. That is the theme of the
Bible, God reaching out to man, reaching out to you and me. It is His desire
for us to know He is with us and that we have His undivided attention.
Psalm 116:1-2 I love the Lord, because He has heard my voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.
Jeremiah 23:23-24 “Am I a God near at hand,” says the Lord, “And
not a God afar off? Can anyone hide himself in secret
places, so I shall not see him?” says the Lord; “Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the
Lord.
Acts 17:27-28 So that they
should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him,
though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have
our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’
