March 2

God, the Lover of your soul, wants to share your day. Beginning with your first wakeful moment in the morning and including the last thoughts you ponder as your eyes grow heavy with sleep, He wants to have sweet communion with you. It will be to your great advantage if you allow yourself to share your day with Him.

It is recorded in the New Testament that Jesus often went off alone to pray. Though the crowds followed Him as they might a rock star today, though He was busy about His Father’s business from His youth, He understood the value, the necessity, of time alone with His Father, and He availed Himself of it

If He who was God incarnate required such intimacy of fellowship with the One who inhabits eternity, how much more so must we? If Jesus needed that sense of connection to the Holy One to sustain Him through the rigors of traversing the rugged countryside, of ministering to all manner of human need, of understanding the longing of men’s hearts who cried to Him for help, how much more do we require that connection in order to fulfill our God-ordained destiny!

If we resolve to make Jesus our role model, if we allow Him to be the pattern for our own lives, we will earnestly seek after the Lord in prayer when we arise, and we will maintain that connectedness with Him throughout our day. We will not neglect the fellowship with Him that allows His Holy Spirit to whisper in our ear, “This is the way, walk ye in it.” We will hear and heed, and in following Him, we shall assure that when we lie down, our goodnight prayer to Him will be sweet.