Go Spend Some Time With God!

Last night I had a bit of a wobbly and found myself feeling really sad for no apparent reason. Dave said the classic line, that I never ever want to hear when I'm sad but the thing that needs to happen. "Go spend some time with God." 

I've learnt that when I'm connected with God and under his covering I'm happy. When I'm not, and I remove myself (often subtly and unintentionally) from his presence and his covering I get sad. I know now that feeling sad is a warning sign that I need to do something to get myself closer with God. I love God, and I love spending time with Him, I love being in his presence, I love having conversations. 

So why is it when someone says.. "Go spend some time with God." My heart sinks. I don't want to. 

I thought about it. I asked God about it and I've come to this conclusion. 

Something deep inside me thinks God is boring. 

I think something deep inside a lot of people think God is boring. 

What do you think of when I say "Go spend some time with God"? Reading the bible? Praying on your knees? Listening to a sermon? Honestly. Sometimes. That's not what I want to do. They're all really good, really useful things, vital things in fact. But sometimes I want to do something else. I want to do something different. I want more.

Imagine you're a child and you say to your father, "I want to spend some time with you." and he gives you three options. You can read a book that he's written, have a chat or listen to someone talk about him. If they were the only ways you could spend time with your Dad you'd get bored. 

God's interested in your interests. He wants to do things with you that you like. Be that painting, drawing, gardening, baking.... Whatever. He is your Heavenly Father and he wants to spend time with you doing things you like, just like a Dad playing with his child. 

I've drawn and coloured with God before and he's spoken so clearly through the things I've produced, I've got some life changing revelations from them actually. So last night Dave said "Go spend some time with God." and I told God "I don't know what to do." and He said "Make some bracelets with me." My mood instantly lifted and I wandered off to the bedroom with my loom bands, bible and journal to make some bracelets. 

I let God choose the colours. For each colour he told me something about myself and gave me a bible verse to back it up. (I've written them all down in my journal so I don't forget.) I spent about two hours doing this and I only stopped because Dave came in and told me what the time was... (Past bed time.) I got caught up creating, chatting with and listening to God that I lost track of time. I wasn't bored, I wasn't distracted, I had fun, dealt with things that needed dealing with and felt so much better for it. 

So be encouraged! God want's to do things with you that you enjoy doing. Think in terms of relationship "I want to have some fun with my Daddy." rather than religious, guilt driven "I HAVE to spend time with God today." Relationship building over box ticking. 

So.... Go spend some time with God.  ^_^