Quite Time with the Lord
Chiqui Brosas on Oct 29 2007 at 10:32 am | Filed under: General
Quiet time with the Lord is so very important. It is a time when one can read His word, the bible, and get to know Him better, what He wants from us and how we fit in His perfect will. It is a time of prayer and reflection, confession and in strenghtening ones self for the day.
I find that Quite Time must be done regularly. When it becomes a habit, you’ll somehow feel incomplete when you don’t do it. Sometimes you loose your christianity that day and blow it. Has that ever happened to you?
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Chiqui,
About quiet time, it is a daily habit for me. Can’t start my day without it. Don’t feel good if i don’t spend time with God in the morning. My faith is unshakable. Even when i have missed Sunday worship or Bible study, I have remained faithful to the Lord. As you know from recent events in my life, my faith has been strengthened.
You know, from all the emails in my high school egroup, I have learned about two of my classmates and their spiritual beliefs. One of them, by his own admission, is a traditional Catholic. This means that he and others like him do not accept the liturgical reforms of Vatican II from which the term “liberation theology” comes. They say mass in Latin and believe in the primacy of the Catholic Church as the one and only true church. Liberation theology is exemplified by people like Fr. James Reuter in the Phil. He is a Jesuit who preaches that people should have a social conscience and be involved in societal development and speak out against political repression like during the Marcos era. Traditional Catholics, who are a minority albeit an outspoken one, are opposed to evangelical Christians like you and I. Another classmate is a “modern” Catholic. In reading some of his emails, i find the combination of his spiritual beliefs convoluted. He says he will die a Catholic. On the other hand, he professes a belief in all this new age stuff about self-enlightenment and the pursuit of one’s happiness through meditation and the like. While doing quiet time for me is a meditation with and on God, he would consider it something wherein he seeks enlightenment through self-fulfillment, meaning he doesn’t pray to God but rather meditates like a Buddhist would, on himself. These guys represent two opposites. I feel like asking the traditionalist if he reads the Bible. If not for the apostle Paul, he would not be a Christian. As you know, Paul spread the Word of God to Gentiles. I feel like asking the modernist if he reads the Bible. He might find what he is looking for in God’s Word. I share these thoughts with you because it shows how happy I am to be a born-again Christian. I am not stuck in a spiritual time warp like the traditionalist nor am i in a confused and confusing state of being like the modernist. I try to follow God’s teaching from His one and only instruction manual, the Bible. I haven’t yet read where it says that worshipping God must be done in Latin. Jesus didn’t speak Latin; He spoke Aramaic. The Lord’s Word is the only enlightenment any and all human beings really need. I have read these two guys’ words about their spiritual beliefs and it amazes me how each of them has evolved over the past 35 years since high school. Through it all, my faith in God remains unshakable.
Quiet time is not “me” time. It is time spent conversing with God through prayer. I cherish quiet time. Father God provides everything I need, period. Sorry if i get carried away with these thoughts. I don’t mean to preach. But I am proud of being a Christian. Your words about quiet time made me think of these two classmates and my own faith.
Moey…your comment brings to mind the Apostle Paul’s words in Romans 10:1-4…”Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they, being ignorant of God’s righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.”
“All we like sheep have gone astray” and there is the God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man. We have all tried to fill the vacuum in our own way at one time or another, but as Paul says, not according to knowledge. The examples you shared above are man’s ways of closing the gap between him and God.
Jesus says that when one sincerely seeks the truth, he will find it. Thankfully, God knows people’s hearts and He sees who truly seeks the truth, He pours His grace on that person and saves Him. How wonderful that though we don’t deserve it, He is merciful and allows us to have that personal relationship with Him…it’s all by grace, and it is truly humbling.
Pray for your friends…that they will truly seek the truth. For through that, God will one day call them to Himself and give them the righteousness of Christ.
Sincerely…Bing