Be With Me

"What can I do?"

It's a question that Jesus' disciples all across the world are wrestling with during these unprecedented times.  Covid-19 has locked us indoors and it seems the best way to love others is to stay away from them.  These are indeed strange days.

For many, you've spent the last years investing in the lives of friends who do not yet follow Jesus.  You love them dearly.  You've served them tirelessly and now, you can't see them.

And so we ask, "Lord, what can I do?"

For many the last years have been spent doing things for God.  We serve the church.  We help with programs.  We feed the poor.  We go to this event and that activity.  We lead Bible study.  We do, do, do.

And so when the world comes to a halt, we ask, "Lord, what can I do?"

For myself, this has been a journey into a lesson the Holy Spirit has been trying to teach me for the last few years.  I'm a slow learner!  I am by nature, a doer.  Perhaps we all are.  But in this moment, when "doing" has been in many ways stripped away, I've found myself wandering, wondering, worrying. 

Am I doing enough?  Am I doing  the right things?  And who am I?

The first week in particular was tough.  I'd wander in and out of a sort of discombobulated haze, not knowing up from down, not knowing what I'd do with myself once I finished the next email I was writing or the call I was on.  My "doer" was being battered and I didn't know what to . . . well, do.

In it all I could hear the whisper of God in the distance, an inviting calm that, as the days wore on and my chaos subsided, I began to listen to and to recognize.  

Be my child.
Be my friend.
Be a member of my church.
Be a citizen of heaven.
Be my workmanship.
Be my new creation.
Be justified and righteous.
Be secure in my hand.
Be free from condemnation.

Be with Me.  Be with Me. Be with Me.

How are you finding ways to simply be with Jesus this week?

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