Supernatural Spaces

“Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10)

I once heard it said that if Satan can not make you sin he will spread you thin. That is a cute rhyme but it carries a powerful truth. The need to do is one of the greatest enemies to our intimacy and understanding of God. We can even carry this into our prayer lives. I am always amused at someone who says they have a relationship with God, yet when they pray they do all of the talking. One sided conversations make for strained relationships. At the very best the unheard party will be greatly misunderstood. In our sincerity to “do” Christianity the right way or to “say a prayer” (something you do) we trade intimacy for achievement. We look at the ability to pray for one hour continuously as the crown jewel of a healthy relationship with God. The irony is that the very things that we employ to make us stronger Christians could be weakening our understanding of the personality of God, simply because of our inability to identify the supernatural spaces where God exists in one on one relationships.

My challenge to you is to not be afraid of nothingness. Don’t fear prayer time that has few words from you. Replace the need to ‘do’ prayer with a cup of coffee and a quiet heart and mind. God lives relationally in the space between our thoughts, in the silence between our words, in the stillness between our actions, and in the holes in our calendar. It is interesting to me that Psalms does not admonish us to know He is God. It admonishes us to first be still. The french scientist Blaise Pascal was quoted as saying that, “all of the problems that man face stem from his inability to sit alone in a room quietly.”I don’t know if Pascal was a believer or not but I believe he had a good understanding of “be still”.

Don’t trade intimacy for achievement, don’t trade an understanding of God’s character and personality for a sense of accomplishment. Get alone with God and a cup of your favorite frothy beverage, invite His presence in for the first few moments through praise (not petition) and then turn off the words, turn of the thoughts and see if you do not find the still small voice of God in these supernatural spaces.

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