Thanks for reading! I know what you are saying and hesitated using that picture because of how we commonly think about God shaking us... “Shake me to wake me!” And yet even though I need to be shaken from my stupor, His patience won’t rush things... like my shaking of the presents under tree. To me, that is a picture of my hurry to get to Christmas. Maybe what I perceive to be a shaking is God’s unhurried patience at work in my life.
I love this. It amasses me how patient God is with me. I wonder if God does, sometimes, shake us though, spiritually speaking. I’m thinking of key things we go through and how God uses those a things to awaken us. Maybe our prayer could include the request for God to shake us or those we pray for.
Thanks for reading! I know what you are saying and hesitated using that picture because of how we commonly think about God shaking us... “Shake me to wake me!” And yet even though I need to be shaken from my stupor, His patience won’t rush things... like my shaking of the presents under tree. To me, that is a picture of my hurry to get to Christmas. Maybe what I perceive to be a shaking is God’s unhurried patience at work in my life.
I love this. It amasses me how patient God is with me. I wonder if God does, sometimes, shake us though, spiritually speaking. I’m thinking of key things we go through and how God uses those a things to awaken us. Maybe our prayer could include the request for God to shake us or those we pray for.