FREQUENTIA

Do you feel it? Can you see it? I can’t hear it, but I sense it. Frequency.

We listened to the heavy metal music. We consumed the junk fast food. We swallowed the pills from Big Pharma. We experienced the advance of technology. The thistles of darkness pricking our humanness. The cars used to be colored. The birds sang and tweeted in the branches and passersby would smile. The frequency has changed.

And yet, God is still here. God is still good. His mercies are new every morning. Maybe we need less loudness, cleaner food, natural healing and even turning off the screens. Why are we afraid of the quiet? the solitude? the aloneness?

Jesus is a testament to both the quiet solitude and the busyness of healing, preaching and teaching. Solitude was his 40 days in the wilderness and finding lonely places to pray. Perhaps we need time to draw nearer to him and to seek a closer relationship in those quiet moments?

During this time of Lent (the season before the greatest reason for believers); Jesus demonstrated his choice of solitude. In Luke 4 v. 1-2 and 14-15, he prayed in the wilderness and was in a spiritual combat with Satan before He began his public ministry. His heart was grieving the beheading of his cousin John the Baptist in Matthew 14: 1-13 when he went away by himself. He also showed His devotion to prayer just before he sent out His 12 disciples for ministry in Mark 6:30-32. But even before that, in Luke 6:12-13, Jesus spent the entire night in prayer before He chose those 12 men. There were multiple times in scripture where Jesus communicated with God alone. Just hours before he was arrested at the Mount of Olives, He knew what He was going to face and He prayed away from His disciples. They couldn’t stay awake, but He fell to His knees “Let this cup pass from me” in His time of distress only to utter in His next breath, “Thy Father’s will be done.”

As we see the world in distress, as we are tempted and filling our days with social media, news and busyness, maybe its time to change the frequencies of our life from the storms, as we limp weak kneed, and crave a need to experience the pure joy of communicating one on one with Jesus. He hears us, knows us and our hearts. Meeting with the heavenly is a love gesture. He wants us to spend those quiet moments alone with Him. So, in the noise of the world, may you find those precious moments to draw near to Him.