I love it when Jesus whispers me out of bed in the morning!
I'm not a morning person. I never have been. I set my coffee pot the night before so I don't have to think about counting scoops or measuring the water before I'm fully awake. I don't like to talk and I don't like to listen...until I've had some time to settle in to the day.
The house is quiet...I'm sleepy...it's still dark outside and believe me...I wouldn't be up right now if I wasn't in love. Don't get me wrong. There are mornings I don't get up and there are mornings I have gotten up out of some sense of so-called christian duty just to clock in my 'quiet time'....but this is different...this is about knowing that my day is so full and that by tonight I'll be so exhausted....and this yearning deep within me to just be with Him....alone.
He knows I'm not a morning person, so He wakes me gently...calling my name. As my mind comes to conciousness, I begin to hear His familiar words softly in my mind..."He awakens me morning by morning, He awakens my ear to listen as a disciple." Isaiah 50:4b
Oh....the bed feels so warm...."Do I have to get up right now?" , I say. "No," He says. "You don't have to get up...." But all of a sudden...I recognize His voice and I want to get up to be alone with Him before the craziness of the day begins. I slip out of bed and run to turn on the fireplace. I grab my coffee....it smells so good as I pour it into the cup (with my favorite flavoured creamer...Vanilla Toffee Caramel...it's good, you should try it...) I curl up in my chair and we sit together in front of the fireplace. Sometimes we don't say anything, we just enjoy the closeness of being together...sometimes we read over His words in the Bible and I ask Him questions. Sometimes I pour out my worries, frustrations, heartaches and anxious thoughts and ask Him to help me as I sort out the day before it begins....and sometimes, after I've woken up a bit, we'll dig in together as I study His Word and He will reveal some nugget of truth to me that seems to set me on fire!!...I Love it when that happens.
But what I love the most, is that it doesn't really matter what we do in the morning as long as we're together. He wakes me up because He wants to be with me...I get up...because I want to be with Him...and when we start off together...we usually end up hanging out the rest of the day.
And that's exactly how it should be when you're in love.
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Hey, I found the place to comment. I hope this works. I love what you have to say today...I'm not a morning person either...and I haven't been as faithful as you to spend time in the morning. Maybe I need to give it a try. I'll talk to Jesus and ask him to wake me up if he would like that morning time together. Maybe I'll have to buy that creamer (:
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