Take your seat, and Look to ME

 

I place Anna in the “Caroline” shopping cart for Special Needs adults.  The chair is designed so that she sits facing me and I buckle her in.  We begin our shopping. Whoever created this chair, understands my girl! You see facing away from me means Anna will look at everyone and everything else and whatever Anna sees, that’s what she wants.  Someone makes eye contact with her, and she smiles and reaches for them.  Shopping while trying to keep Anna from grabbing people does not help me get my job done.  Sometimes it stops it altogether!

We are not all that different from her; we have our own special needs.  We easily get overstimulated, wanting things that we really do not need.  Our focus naturally turns towards others when comparing ourselves to each other.   We tend to look to physical relationships to meet our emotional needs, instead of going to the ONE who desires our direct attention. We end up doing a lot of nothing and feel lacking even though all we need God provides. When will we learn that true living is found in Christ, not in the things we place in our cart?   We need to sit more often in our own “Caroline Cart”, face to face with Jesus.

I hear my Heavenly Father say, turn around and take your seat. Face me and Focus. We will get a lot more done, when you begin to turn your eyes to ME.  All the things you think you want, are not what you need right now.  Find that place of gratitude and contentment right where you are.   And at the end of the day, a task that would have been a pain, can become a treasured moment by simply focusing on HIM. 

"You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You." Is 26:3-4

"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.” John Piper

"And He raised us up together with Him [when we believed], and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, [because we are] in Christ Jesus, and He did this] so that in the ages to come He might [clearly] show the immeasurable and unsurpassed riches of His grace in [His] kindness toward us in Christ Jesus [by providing for our redemption]." Eph 2:6,7