One Minute with God

Psalm 46:10 begins with: "Be still and know that I am God..."  God tells his people to stop worrying and scurrying about, fretting about our lives.  Be still.  Stop.  And focus on God.  For a minute.

A minute.

Give God your full attention and devotion, without saying a thing.  Just sit before him and know that he is God.

"I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted on the earth," the verse continues.  Knowing God, and then being consumed with him is the heart of Christianity.  Not good deeds, not Bible reading, not church attendance, not anything but God.

Jesus said, "And this is eternal life, that they may know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent" (John 17:3).  Knowing God and his Son, Jesus, is the point of eternal life.  It's easy to get distracted with the stuff of life--even the stuff of church life--and forget why we live.

Paul the Apostle talks about the extreme privilege Jesus' followers have to behold the glory of Lord in the gospel of Jesus (2 Corinthians 3:18), and the shocking result that we are being changed by this encounter!

This is our vocation as Christians: to be distracted, overcome, obsessed, indeed drunk with God.  But in our weakness we forget, we lose focus, we doubt, we even disobey and seek fulfillment in earthly pursuits.

So take a minute and be still.  He is God.  He will be exalted in the earth.  Allow all that you know about him to flood your mind and heart.  Take one silent minute and give it to God as fully as you can.

Once you have done this for awhile, you realize how easy it is to stop for a single minute and escape to the throne of the Most High.  And you realize, one minute is not only easy; it's not enough.

In reality, God wants and deserves all our minutes.  He beckons us to "pray without ceasing" (1 Thessalonians 5:17).  Once we have tasted the incomparable sweetness of his presence, we are inspired to steal away all the time for a taste of it.