STAY CONSCIOUS

Hello there!

Welcome to the month of June! I’m especially excited about this month because it is the month I finally get to drop my ‘undergraduate’ hat and proudly wear the one that says ‘graduate’ and e dey give me joy!

Anyway, welcome to today’s gist.

So, I kept thinking of what I could say to you guys and nothing came to mind but yesterday I was reading Lori Wick’s ‘Bamboo & Lace’ and I read a paper on Luke 1:18 &19 where Zacharias asked how it would be possible for he and Elizabeth to have a child in their old age and the angel replied “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God and I have been sent to you, to bring you this good news.”

The writer’s emphasis here was in the fact that Gabriel stands in the presence of God, he gets to see God and know Him intimately, and maybe that is why obedience to God came seemingly easy for him.

As a human who doesn’t get to physically stand before God, it seems that that becomes my excuse after all, unlike Gabriel who receives his instructions directly from God’s mouth, I do not get to physically see God’s lips moving to tell me to do or not do something.

But here’s a thought!

Every time I come to God in prayer or I study His word, I enter into His presence! I get instant communication with Him; I have access to converse with Him like I would with someone I could physically see. So why am I not quick to obey Him when He tells me something? Why is it easier for me, frail and definitely not supernatural as I am, to do what Gabriel, celestial as he is, would not do? Why do I want to wait until I can get physical access to God before I obey Him?

I’ve found that this is fundamentally a situation of my heart. There are times when I am in the presence of His Majesty and my irreverent heart does not submit and I ask like Zacharias “how is this to be…?” when He bids me to do a thing.

And I have found that I must train myself, teach my heart and spur my unwilling members to action; I must never lose the consciousness of the presence of God in my life, after all He tells me in Hebrews 13:5 that He will never leave me. Since God does not leave me, it invariably means that I constantly stand in the presence of Yahweh. I don’t need to go to a physical location to meet with God, I meet Him in my spirit and my heart must never forget that fact!

This consciousness is one that I have in recent times been training myself not to forget so reading about it yesterday was God reconfirming to me that I am on the right path in this journey.

So I’m inviting you to come join me, let’s journey for the rest of lives in the consciousness that we are constantly in God’s presence; so our actions, our thoughts, our words and even our in-actions must show that we live in this consciousness.

I really hope my plenty ramblings made some sense to you as it did to me, may God keep us sensitive to His presence and leading –in June and onward.

Have a blessed month! And see you next week.

 

Love,

Achenyo.

 

PS. My final exams as an undergraduate are in 12 days!