Preparing My Heart

Every week, our church sends out an email called Meditation for Preparation. A devotion, you could call it, to ready our hearts for worship. I literally just got through reading it. Stopped in my tracks. And said, "Ouch!" Is someone watching my house? Knowing my thoughts? Was this written to me? I think so. Maybe you'll feel the same way! So, I had to share...

Single-Minded...Like Christ

Read: Luke 10:38-42

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Dear Savior at whose feet I now sit,
When you knock on the door to my heart, what is it you are looking for? What is it you want? Is it not to come in to dine with me and I with you? Is it not for devotion and fellowship?

And yet, so often where do you find me? At your feet? No. In the kitchen. How many times have I become distracted and left you there...sitting...waiting...longing?

What is so important about my kitchen full of preparations that draws me away from you? How can they seem so trivial now and yet so urgent when I'm caught up in them?

Forgive me for being so much distracted by my preparations and so little attracted by your presence. For being so diligent in my service and so negligent in my devotion. For being so quick to my feet and so slow to yours.

Help me to understand that it is an intimate moment you seek from me, not an elaborate meal.

Guard my heart this day from the many distractions that vie for my attention. And help me to fix my eyes on you. Not on my rank in the kingdom, as did the disciples. Not on the sins of others, as did the Pharisees. Not on a place of worship, as did the woman at the well. Not on the budget, as did Judas. But on you.

Bring me out of the kitchen, Lord. Bid me come to your feet. And there may I thrill to sit and adore thee. (Adapted from Ken Gire)