Friday, January 10, 2014 -- Sought Through Prayer And Meditation To Improve Our Conscious Contact With God
Over and over again, individuals who have found a successful life in recovery have found quiet places of prayer with God to be essential. In meeting after meeting we hear stories of those who have found peace as they sat with their cup of tea or coffee early in the morning and listened for God's voice as they sought God's direction for their life that day.
It was very early in the morning and still dark. Jesus got up and left the house. He went to a place where he could be alone. There he prayed. Simon and his friends went to look for Jesus. When they found him, they called out, “Everyone is looking for you!” Jesus replied, “Let’s go somewhere else. I want to go to the nearby towns. I must preach there also. That is why I have come.” (Mark 1:35-38 NLRV)
The founders of AA stated clearly in Step 11 what Jesus Christ taught us and modelled with His life. Step 11 reminds us that we pray and meditate on God's words in order to have knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. Jesus often went away by himself for long hours to share his life and his thoughts with His Heavenly Father. Even the night before he died Jesus was talking to his Father about His Will, asking Him to clarify the way forward and surrendering His life to the plan God revealed.
It is God's deep desire that you and I experience life fully today. In the Garden of Eden God established a beautiful habit of coming to walk with Adam and Eve in the cool of the day. Nothing is more beautiful than moments where we experience God's loving voice speaking to us. God has given us the Bible and talks to us when we read it. Simply asking God to speak to us and then reading from those pages opens up whole new understandings of life at it's best. Sharing our daily experiences, our hopes and dreams, even our confusion and suffering with God helps us to find strength, comfort and direction to face it all.
Conscious contact with God -- it's the best and it's available to you and me today.
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