What happens when I seem to do all the right things to insure hearing from God and there are no great revelations in the offing? Does it mean that all my time is wasted and that I should have just stayed in bed? Should I expect insights into eternal things as a given and be disappointed when they don't appear?
Do I cry out with the psalmist as he begs in Psalm 71:
"Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
Do not forsake me when my strength fails."
or further on in the same passage:
"And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me
I get up early, I read my designated passages, I walk and enjoy the quiet of the early morning, and then I come back in ready to be wowed by some great insight that I can take in and then communicate to any who might read what I write today.
But then nothing great comes. Could it be that there is sin in my life that blocks this transmission? I definitely do sin, and that can be a hinderance surely. So I think and reflect on my life and confess what I see, but still nothing jumps out at me from anything that I read and reread.
The question may not be in what I am looking for, but in what I am overlooking in the process. Is it a question of what I can get from God each time I sit down, or is it what God wants to give me in any of these times?
Perhaps that is the Great Revelation that is there for me right now.
Perhaps it is not the mountaintop "aha" moments that define my life, but the living out of the things that He has already made known. Life is lived out in those valleys between the mountains.
Let me celebrate those times and walk in obedience to them.
That is great
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