I was searching Tuesday night.
Searching through my cell phone.
Searching through scripture.
Searching through a neon notebook dated 1992.
I sat at our kitchen table, searching for God to inspire words.
And He did.
On the side of a Chick-Fil-A cup, no less.
The cup invited me to “Sit and sip awhile.”
I smiled and decided to snap a picture (because that’s what we do, right?)
Through the lens, I saw what I was searching for.
The cross.
I drank it in.
The truth is, I don’t sit well.
I sit and scroll.
I sit and read.
I sit and watch.
With a Chick-Fil-A cup, I sit and sip.
It’s hard to only sit.
I scarcely indulged a few quiet moments with my cup and the cross, then returned to that 1992 neon notebook.
My daddy’s familiar handwriting fills the light blue lines. You know what he wrote?
Sit.
OK, not exactly. (But wouldn’t that have been cool?!)
His actual words are “God will only prepare you if you let Him.”
Sometimes that means we must sit.
Like me, daddy was searching when he wrote those words and these:
“I knew that there were things that God wanted me to do but I was not prepared to do them. So to make a long story short I started study the Book of Philippians and got my answer to the prayer I prayed. The answer came in Chap. 3:10.”
“My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death.” (Philippians 3:10)
Daddy was reminded, and through a neon notebook reminded me, that to know what God wants us to do, we must know God.
And how do we know God?
We sit.
We sit and study.
We sit and pray.
We sit and listen.
We sit and sip.
Many blue lines later in his notes, daddy penciled something else to ponder:
What are we willing to give up that we can go further in the knowledge of Jesus?
I can search through my cell phone.
I can search through scripture.
I can search through a neon notebook dated 1992.
But I won’t find the answer until I take time to sit.
Maybe with a cup. Always with the cross.
“My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death.”
(Philippians 3:10)
