I can vividly remember the first PG-13 rated movie that watched; Look Who’s talking. The movie stared John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, and Bruce Willis. For those of you who have never seen this film, it is shot by the perspective of the baby (Willis) as he goes through the begining of his life. The opening scene is actually how I learned how babies are made… no it was not a sex scene but it showed the sperm swiming to the ovary and the battles along the way. Anyway the only reason I even mention this movie is the fact that the audience can understand what the baby is saying but no one else is able to, because he’s a baby duh. But anywho my last night on Pawley’s Island I chose to go on yet another walk on the beach, the only difference from my last walk was this was at night and it was a whole lot colder. While I was walking I had my iPod on and was listening to an absolutely ballin’ playlist. One of the first songs that came on was “Where I Belong” by Matt Gilman and Cory Asbury. Yall have probably never heard of it, (go look it up right now and listen to it) but the lyrics go like this:
Your presence is all I am longing for, here in the secret place
Your nearness is all I am waiting for, here in the quiet place
Here in the secret place
My soul waits for You alone
Like the watchmen wait for dawn
Here I’ve finally found a place
Where we’ll meet, Lord, face to face
This set me in my mind set for my walk, I knew that this was going to be all about worship God and longing for his presence. Check this I was able to walk along the beach and just be in awe with the wonder of our Lord’s creations; the stars, the ocean, the sand, and the stillness of it all. I highly recomend taking a walk one peaceful night near some body of water and just worship without any cares. It was the highlight of one the best Spring Breaks I’ve had. I just wandered singing to God and I didn’t care if anyone heard me.
Then God did what he normally does and changed things up on me. This next song started to play and made me think:
Word of God Speak… I find myself at a lost for words and the funny thing is it’s ok… Is that how we are when we are talking to God? Do we take the time to just be in silence and actually hear the word of God? I know thats not always the case for me. For anyone who knows me know that I enjoy talking and am pretty outgoing, so sometimes when it comes to prayer and trying to hear the Holy Spirit speak to me I tend to just do most of the talking. Its like when I try to get to know someone I usually like to have a lot of conversations where I can get to know the person better. Occassionally I’ll find myself talking too much and not actually finding anything out anything new about the person I truely want to know better. If I was the one who did all the talking and never just stopped to listen in silence how are we going to grow the relationship. This is the same with growing in Christ and hearing from him.
I’ll leave you with one more song that came up on my placelist:
In the secret,
In the quiet place
In the stillness you are there
In the secret in the quite hour I wait, only for you
Cause I want to know you more
Next time you pray look who’s talking. Are you like that baby who does all of this talking throughout the movie, but nobody listens to or will you sit in silence and just long for His presence?
