Daily Devotion
How is my relationship with God?
It's a simple question, but it has the power to reveal the true condition of our hearts. Life moves quickly. Ministry, work, family responsibilities, and daily demands can fill every available space. Before long, we can become so busy serving God that we neglect spending time with Him.
We continue doing good things while our souls quietly become weary. We attend church but stop listening. We pray, but only when we need something. We read Scripture, but only to prepare for someone else. We serve, but no longer from a place of overflow.
That is why seasons of sabbatical are so important.
Sabbatical invites us to stop measuring productivity and start examining proximity. It shifts our attention from what we are doing for God to how we are doing with God. God never intended us to live on spiritual fumes. He desires relationship before performance.Presence before productivity. Communion before commission. When Jesus called His disciples, He first invited them to be with Him before He sent them out to minister.
The same principle remains true today.
Sometimes the most spiritual thing we can do is stop long enough
for God to restore us.
To sit quietly.
To listen.
To breathe.
To worship without rushing to the next task.
To enjoy God's presence without an agenda.
To remember that we are loved because we are His, not because of what we accomplish.
When we stop, we discover that God is still working even when we are not.
Happy Sabbatical
It's a simple question, but it has the power to reveal the true condition of our hearts. Life moves quickly. Ministry, work, family responsibilities, and daily demands can fill every available space. Before long, we can become so busy serving God that we neglect spending time with Him.
We continue doing good things while our souls quietly become weary. We attend church but stop listening. We pray, but only when we need something. We read Scripture, but only to prepare for someone else. We serve, but no longer from a place of overflow.
That is why seasons of sabbatical are so important.
Sabbatical invites us to stop measuring productivity and start examining proximity. It shifts our attention from what we are doing for God to how we are doing with God. God never intended us to live on spiritual fumes. He desires relationship before performance.Presence before productivity. Communion before commission. When Jesus called His disciples, He first invited them to be with Him before He sent them out to minister.
The same principle remains true today.
Sometimes the most spiritual thing we can do is stop long enough
for God to restore us.
To sit quietly.
To listen.
To breathe.
To worship without rushing to the next task.
To enjoy God's presence without an agenda.
To remember that we are loved because we are His, not because of what we accomplish.
When we stop, we discover that God is still working even when we are not.
Happy Sabbatical
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