The Watchman

I have been meaning to bring the topic of The Watchman, no... its not a movie, though I just had a though of writing a script for one, but maybe another time, its also not related to the two witness that was mentioned in the book of Revelation.

In this post today, I would like to share about praying as well as watching, and how those two correlate to each other.

Have you ever heard your fellow congregations giving testimony, and they use things like, "God told me..." or "the Holy Spirit said to me..."? Did you ever wonder if you are the only one not getting that moment with God? Or perhaps feeling like as though maybe you're just not good enough?

I don't know how you might spend your quiet time with God, but most of my observations of late, is that people tend to pray, say their thanks and their wish list and just hang up. The same as how you are on the phone with someone and at the end of the conversation, they just hang up on you before you could add another word, or even just to say your goodbyes.

Ever thought that perhaps God might just feel how you must have felt being the one on the receiving end? I know the feeling, at best I am just left speechless. Worst case, I felt disappointed, sometimes even unwanted or unappreciated. But that is just my human feelings.

"Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not" - Jeremiah 33:3

Sometimes we are too busy with our own scheduling, thoughts on what to eat for lunch, sometimes our own phone rang throughout the night, taking away our sleep the next day, or any number of small things that disturb our spiritual peace with the Lord, that we take away His time in responding to us.

How would it be if after each prayer, we just sit down silently, awaiting for His response?

We, as humans even with ears to hear and eyes to see, can be deaf and blind to the works of God at hand. Often when we are in deep trouble, we then ask that million dollar question of where God is when we needed Him, or what God has been keeping silence. But the question now falls to whether we have given Him the time to speak to us. Or whether we have been ignoring all the little things that He has done in our lives that got us to where we are, be it the prefect husband/wife, or miracle healing, or the smallest things like bringing people into our life at our darkest time?

Like all relationship, our relationship with Jesus is one that gives and receives, one that requires listening as well as talking.