Off-Beat

Have you ever known someone who just has a hard time catching rhythm? Saturdays in Death Valley comes to mind for me because so many people end up off beat during the cadence count. Some say its because of the echo in Death Valley but that’s not the case for everybody.

I say that to say this, when it comes to clapping there are times where people have their hands together when it should be apart and apart when it should be together and it’s hard to catch something when your hands aren’t open to receive it. Clearly, there’s a time for everything like the Bible says.

No matter how much we pray for something to happen, if we don’t position ourselves properly to receive it then we aren’t showing faith that we believe it’ll actually happen. There’s a story about two farmers who prayed for rain, but only one actually went and prepared his field for it and that farmer epitomizes what it means to position oneself.

Now, we pray for a lot of things (SIDENOTE: thank God for unanswered prayers as well) and sometimes we wonder why God doesn’t always come right out and tell us which way we are supposed to go. I meditated on that and I felt like God was telling me because if decisions in life were so cut and dry, then we wouldn’t have to seek Him as earnestly to know which way to go. Proverbs 3:5-6 says to “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”

We know that everything works out for God’s will and that God’s timing isn’t necessarily our own so why is it so hard to wait on God to deliver on his promises. It’s because we live in an on-demand generation, and we don’t intend for it to be that way that’s just how society has us moving (i.e. Verizon’s Get It Now, Comcast On Demand, etc). But rather than training ourselves to the rhythm around us (the flow of the world that ultimately leads to death, see Proverbs 14:12,) we should snap to His rhythm by spending time with Him. Just like a quarterback and receiver become in sync because of the amount of time they train together, we should spend time with God so we can be in sync with Him and HIS TIMING!

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