Did I Miss Something?

July 11, 2005

Did I Miss Something?

“My heart is overflowing with a good theme; I recite my composition concerning the King my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.” (Psalm 45:1)

Crazy feelings and emotions go through your body when you know you are to be somewhere at a certain time, you are, but no one else shows up. Questions like, “Did I miss an email message, or did I read the email wrong?” Go through the mind. Then emotions of being alone and no one you know to sit with can be unnerving. Oh, then the condemning thoughts come, “No one came because you are giving the devotional and why wound anyone want to come on a hot day to listen?” Thank goodness God has been teaching me lessons on recognizing the source of those hideous thoughts. “Stop, and no more!” are my defense words.

With a café’ mocha in hand, I sat down at a corner table and waited… Ten minutes passed still no one… Twenty minutes still no one… Then instead of waiting upon others or getting upset, I started to read through my writing binder. Notes and scriptures from my binder helped me to focus.

I remember reading somewhere that writing in coffee shops can be a great place to write out thoughts, so I started to write with the influence of the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes I think our walk with God is like going to meet your friends and no one shows up or at lest it can feel that way. Feelings and emotions are not the best way to tell if God has shown up. Looking through my journals weeks after I have written an entry tell me that God was with me, leading and helping me to recite praises to Him.

Yes, no one showed up from the monthly writer’s group, but God did. He is teaching me to use each moment to bring glory to Him.

When you find yourself all alone and your friends don’t show, what do you do? How has God been speaking in your life? How is He using you to be a writer to bring glory to Him?

Father, thank you for that you are always with us, teaching and guiding us, to be ready at any moment, to be a writer and witness for You. May we always bring glory to you even when we find ourselves all alone. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Copyright: Robin Sloboda July 11, 2005