The other day, I read in one of my leisure readings about the spiritual strongholds within each generation. It said that…”The spirit of the age we live in now is Busyness, or Driven.”
That hit me hard. How scary huh? Isn’t being Driven a good thing? But to think the devil can disguise himself in the form of a good thing only to distract us ever more from the Lord. I guess the only reason why it hit me so hard was because I’ve fallen victim to this spirit one too many times. This week was busy for me indeed. It was good! GREAT! in fact…but nevertheless, busy. But when I read that line, it just broke my heart. I don’t wanna become a stranger before the Lord, only serving Him as if He’s some boss of mine. I wanna know Him, feel what He feels, love what He loves—intimacy with my Jesus. Whenever I get these little epiphanies, I’m always reminded of the girl back in Spring quarter…the Christine who would eagerly power walk from class back to her dorm room, drop her books, turn up the worship music & just fall on her knees before her Lover. I want that again. I need to fight for that.
But you know what touches me SO much? sigh, I’m not the only one who wants that. Jesus wants that intimacy as well. He wants it with you…He wants it with me. God is so good to me, because by about mid-week, I found out that all my classes got cancelled on the first day of school :) You see, He, the Creator of the heavens and earth, the King of kings, the Alpha and Omega, wanted to spend time with me too. I took my classes being cancelled as Him divinely opening up my schedule because as much as I want to spend time with Him, He wants to spend time with me…infinitely more. sigh, how good He is to me.
So school did not officially start for me until Friday. And I got to campus 15 minutes early (unintentionally)…see! again! :) He wants to spend time with me. With you. Anyways, so i decided to take a little detour and visit my favorite place on campus once again—laying down beneath the trees of Jann steps. The perfect way to begin my school year—in one of my favorite places with the favorite One of my life.
-Christine
