By: Lauren Thomas
Have you ever felt the Lord’s invitation? Have you experienced Him inviting you into His presence? David wrote about this in the Psalms:
You have said, “Seek my face.”
My heart says to you,
“Your face, Lord, do I seek.”
Psalm 27:8
While I have felt Him calling to me like this Psalm describes, and have eagerly answered His call, I know that he invites me even when I don’t “feel” it. Even when my love is weak and I don’t sense my spiritual hunger, He calls, He invites. He can use anything to invite us to Him. Everything we experience can be an invitation to His presence.
When we experience blessing and plenty, we, the recipient, are invited to remember that all good gifts come from the Father (James 1:17). In our gratitude we enter His presence.
When we experience pain, heartache, tragedy, He invites us to come to Him. Perhaps this invitation is the loudest. C.S. Lewis wrote in The Problem of Pain, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
But what about the mundane, the monotonous, the daily grind? What about when we have no swelling emotion to rouse us? What about when our spiritual life feels like a dry and barren desert? What about when we are facing burnout? Does His invitation come even then?
Yes. Everything around us is an invitation into His presence. No matter the season. No matter the challenge. God is whispering. God is speaking tenderly. God is calling. God is shouting. Will we hear Him? Will we sense Him drawing us to Himself?
We just have to open our eyes and ears to these invitations.
Your Bible on the shelf is an invitation. That moment of boredom when you are tempted to grab your phone? It’s an invitation. The beauty of creation is an invitation to worship. Our blessings are an invitation to express gratitude to the Giver of Good Gifts. Our disappointments are an invitation. Daily chores and mundane tasks are an invitation to do our work as worship and to do it in fellowship with the Servant King, Jesus.
Reflection:
When was the last time you sensed God inviting you into His presence?
What invitations might you have missed today?
What steps can you take to open your eyes and ears to God’s invitations?
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