“Leave yourself alone. Enter solitude. Be silent. Do your good deeds in secret. Make dead space into holy ground.
You will become less, it’s true. But you will also become more: you will discover your true self and meet more often, lose less often, the Lord of the holy wild. For out of empty tombs and dead spaces comes the living Christ. Be still and know that He is God.”
Mark Buchanan
“For out of empty tombs and dead spaces comes the living Christ”. How encouraging is that? I know that many days, I feel like an empty tomb. I feel as if I’m filled with dead space. I feel as if I don’t have one more good thing to give, to say, to do, left within me.
Those are the days that I know I am trying to do it on my own. I’m not consciously tuning God out…I’m just not being intentional about sitting with Him, about getting myself out of the way. When I try to be present with God, I am so much more aware of Him being the One who works in and through me and that what I am able to do is because of Him. It is in Him that I live and move and have my being.
Today…do you feel like an empty tomb? Do feel like you are hollow inside…filled with only dead space? Remind yourself that the Creator of the universe, the One who made the foundations of the earth, who crafted the mountains and carved out the seas….lives within you. And…that makes you the bearer of the Christ. Move and live and have your being this day resting in that knowledge.
Grace and peace,
Deb
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I for one, have recently felt this way...dead inside; full of longing and lonely. I seem to always forget that these times are sacred times where he is getting my attention, calling me deeper, moving me out of the way, a reminder that it's not about me, getting my focus where it needs to be. Not fun times but always followed by some surprising refreshment. Thanks for this timely reminder Deb.
Joan,
Sometimes, when we feel like we can't connect with God yet our heart is desperate to sense Him, it may be evidence of the Holy Spirit working deep within, on a level we can't discern or detect. Rest in Him, trust the process and you likely notice significant transformation on the other side...
grace and peace,
Deb
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