Have you heard the gentle heartbeat of God? Or the soft whispers of the Holy Spirit?
In this noisy world they are so difficult to hear, but it we sit still for long enough, calming the storm of our minds, opening our hearts in faith, we can find them.
Sometimes they can be heard through normal everyday sounds. Birds chirping. Babies sleeping. A dogs snoring. Stillness on the top of a mountain….
It’s at that moment when your heart swells and is filled with peace, that’s where He can come and touch us. He reaches out and it’s a love that swells and embraced us.
It’s that moment too when we are so broken in tears and pain, like any good Father, the Lord reaches to embrace us, wraps his arms around us, comfort us and eases our suffering.
He isn’t a creator that stays far aloof. The big presence in the sky that judges sending thunderbolts and lightning. He isn’t a disinterested Father who stands from a distance or just watches.
He can’t just stand back and watch, instead he rolls up his sleeve, and stretches out his hand. He walks with us in our day. Jesus, the Son of Man, the Saviour, knew he had the power to raise the dead, still wept at the loss of Lazarus. His heart still broke in Gethsemane and on the road to Jerusalem. He feels our pain as acutely today as he did 2000 years ago when he was physically persecuted on this earth. Yes, he feels all our pain, knows our wounds and his heart breaks and bleeds for you!
Yet once again we ask, why do we have to experience this pain? Why do we have to endure these hardships? Some of these trials it seems are sent to break us.
Sometimes those trials do. They break us from the mould of this life, cracking open the surface of that hardened shell. And what germinates from this time can be life changing and miraculous. We can decide we can’t control life, we’ve failed and chose to lose ourselves in the pit of self-pity; or we can realise that we never had any control really, choosing to release and surrender the control to the one who made us.
He is here with us, He walks with us every single step of the way. Whether we chose to acknowledge Him, or let Him in is our choice. But once we do there really is no turning back. The closer you get, the freer you become. To stand closer to the Father and hear the heartbeat of God!
“And remember that I am always with you until the end of time.» Matthew 28:20
