Asleep...

It seems like I’ve been asleep for most of the day.  I’ve been in the “zone” as we like to say here...headphones on and my fav music tinkling my earlobes, I’ve smashed out a bunch of projects that have been looming for days.  And there has been one thought on my mind:  “Awaken:  An Evening with Priscilla Shirer”.  It’s the free live event with Priscilla coming up in a few weeks.  We’re dragging out our finest and polishing the best to set the table for ladies to hear God speak through Priscilla.  I.  Can’t.  Wait.  

Awaken has been on my mind.  But The Lord has been telling me the opposite is needed in my heart:  sleep.  He wants me to sleep on some of the things that are nearest and dearest to my heart.  Have you heard that verse seen a few times in the Song of Solomon?  “Promise me, of women of Jerusalem, not to awaken love until the time is right”?  A young single girl in Dallas, the obvious response to “not awaken love” is to sleep from “relationships”...to not arouse those desires for romance until He brings my husband (and He WILL bring my husband!).  And so I set my heart to desire His closeness instead of a man’s.  But I think there is more to this spiritual principle than romantic love that I need here today.  Love is needed...it’s a need.  When I press into a need before God is ready to meet it, I throw off my contentment.  We are not called to ignore needs.  Rather, we’re called to have them met by Him.  IN HIS timing.  

When I was sitting with my headphones on today, I accomplished a ton of stuff. My focus kept me on tasks that, in the big picture of things, are more immediate.  Had I taken my headphones off and engaged in all the things happening in my environment, I might have missed accomplishing what He had for me TODAY.  When needed, headphones were slipped off, and focus was shifted to the more immediate need.  When that need was done, headphones went back up and I dove again into the project He had for me.  

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one that enjoys zoning people out and being anti-social.  But I highly value doing what He has for me to do today.  And sometimes that requires me slipping on headphones...sometimes that requires me to fall asleep to other things around me.  So, here’s to sleeping in His will, til His timing wakes us.  At night I fall asleep by playing a few games of sudoku on my phone...I wonder how He wants us to fall asleep in His will today?