Selah: To pause, reflect, and consider.

Today is a day I have given to be sanctified to Jesus, to acknowledge Him in being my all in all, my truest love and friend, and the most beautiful of any person ever come to earth, and ascended on high. I knew I had to give a day to him (though He is worthy of all time in my life) to express my gratitude and hunger for Him and His pure love above all other things which fill us up. Only He can fill us until we no longer are in need of any other sustenance. Only He can enlighten our minds to truth. Only He can direct my steps by illuminating my way with His words and guidance. So, I look to Him today and give Him my whole heart, and all of my time.
This, I acknowledge, is difficult for our flesh. My immediate desire upon awakening is to go directly to the kettle, warm up water and start my coffee routine. Then I figure out a breakfast meal to consume, for me and the children. After ALL of this, perhaps I either go to spend time with the Lord or I get on the computer to spend my time wastefully looking at my friend's lives and writing e-mails, or facebook spying, etc. I do all of these things without hardly thinking of the WHY. I just do, mindlessly it seems.
I am hungry. I am mostly hungry in my spirit for something that is lasting and fulfilling though. This does not come in the form of food that we place in our mouths (though one of my most favorite things to partake of, I admit, is eating scrumptious tidbits and delectable feasts of this and that). We hunger down deep within us. In a place only we, and more so, the Holy Spirit, can identify. I want Him to overflow in that place of want. He is my provision.
This all sounds strange and foreign and perhaps even vulgar to the mind that resides on flesh only. But to those of us who see there is more than what our eyes merely fall on in front of us, in this world, it makes sense, because we are searching with the eyes of our hearts.
I give You this day, Father, because You are worthy of my all. You alone can fill me the way I need to be filled, and pray for more of You: More enlightenment to spiritual things, More Holy Spirit to dwell within me, More cognizance to what lies beyond the confines and tethers of this earth, and most of all, More Love. I want to be teachable, and I see so much judgments and opposition and cynicism within me that comes out when I least expect, break me with Your love.

I choose to pause today and give you thanks. I've heard it said that pools of refreshment will stand in the footprints of those who wait on His next operating instructions, and I do this, I choose to wait on Him, His peace, His open doors, rather than trying to make my own way and coming up against unnecessary walls. His way is perfect and exact, and always love. Jesus.