Seeing More of Heaven on Knees

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

When was the last time you were simply still, motionless and speechless before God? A moment in time, when the busyness didn’t press in with numerous needs of the hour, invading your prayer time with ongoing ramblings? A moment when you simply were in the presence of God, aware of His Being?

“When we have met the Lord in the silent intimacy of our prayer,
then we will also meet him… in the market, and in the town square.
But when we have not met him in the center of our hearts,
we cannot expect to meet him in the busyness of our daily lives.”
—HENRI NOUWEN[i]

“I want to know how God created this world.
I am not interested in this or that phenomenon,
in the spectrum of this or that element.
I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.”
-Albert Einstein-

Said the great and devout scientist, Sir Isaac Newton:
“I can take my telescope and look millions and millions of miles into space,
but I can lay it aside and go into my room, shut the door,
get down on my knees in earnest prayer, and see more of heaven and get closer to God than
I can assisted by all the telescopes and material agencies on earth.”
—Free Methodist[ii]

Take a few minutes and simply be. Don’t speak. Don’t pray. Don’t even tell God you love Him, or worship Him. Simply be. Be silent. Be still. And experience the Deep of God’s Spirit calling out to the deep of your spirit. Be conscious of His presence, His Spirit deep inside. In short, communion with God.

“As for that which is far off and exceedingly deep, Who can find it out?”
ECCLESIASTES 7:24

[i] Henri Nouwen, !Gracias!: A Latin American Journal, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983, 21.
[ii] Tan, P. L. 1996, c1979.