Air Dancer

I was driving home from my Moms in Prayer group recently and had to wait at a stop light just within view of a car wash where one of those "air dancer" advertising characters was rising and falling. Of course, down his "body" it said "car wash." As I waited for the light to turn green, Matt West's song, "Hello, My Name is," was playing on my radio. And, it seemed that this air dancer was lifting its arms and fingers in praise with the song!

Matt West's song moves from being named "regret" and "defeat" to "child of the One True King." What love that the Father has lavished upon us that we should be called His children! That is worthy for all of us to gather around this air dancer to lift our arms up in praise.

 

Are you feeling like your name is regret? Or, like your name is defeat? Then it is time for you to take some "Selah" time with Jesus so you can listen and believe His voice, not the lies of the enemy. Like the word "Selah" suggests, just pause and rest with Him.

 

I know. I know. That's easier said than done. We're so busy, caught up in a culture of doing. And there are so many choices. We want to do it all. Perhaps that is why we live in defeat and regret, dragged down. 

 

Like Martha, we get worried and troubled by those many things. It is time to let go of "everything" and do that one thing that is needed, like the good part that Mary chose (Luke 10:38-42).  We need some time just sitting at the feet of Jesus, just sitting and soaking Him in. He said that is something that won't be taken away from us.

 

Amazingly, when we do that one thing, we find life becomes much more focused and purposeful, more productive. That is what happens when we are refreshed, renewed and rejuvenated. We don't feel the need give into the tugs to do this and do that. Instead, we can settle into the place the Lord created just for us, that work Paul wrote about in Ephesians 2:10. And, praying mom, you know prayer is work!

 

So, put on your thinking cap, get out your calendar, and set aside a morning, an afternoon, or even a whole day for an appointment with your best Friend, Jesus. This is what He tells us—

 

"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.]" Matthew 11:28 AMP

 

It's a message He has been repeating over and over throughout Scripture because our ears can get blocked to His voice. Many years prior, the Lord God called to His people, saying, “Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life. I will make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David." Isaiah 55:3

 

I don't know about you, but I want relief and refreshment and life. And I want to lean back into the Lord's unfailing love.

 

There's room at Jesus' feet for us all to snuggle up.