No Need to Perform

Matthew 6: 6 "Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just BE THERE as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace." (Message)

I was reading this this morning, and realized this is why I love my quiet times alone with Jesus so much. I don't need to or feel the pressure to "perform" or be the "perfect" Christian woman when it is just me and and my Heavenly Papa! I can just be. I can be sobbing my eyes out and it doesn't matter. I can be mad and Jesus is like "bring it on I can handle it!" I can be quiet because I don't have any words or energy left to speak, and that is fine too. I can just be.

Sometimes to find a quiet secluded place is hard to do. I am a stay at home wife/mom (soon), and right now I am able to find my quiet places. When I was working at the church or working at the school sometimes I just needed that quiet time if even for a minute with Jesus, yet finding it was so hard. Well at least in the physical sense. Maybe the quiet secluded place needs to be a place with us that we can go to with Jesus, to be quiet if even for a moment and just be. In that safe and quiet place if even for a moment there is no need to perform, no need to get it right, or be the star of the show. Only a desire to be with the One who loves me more than I will ever know! Something to think about at least. Not sure how to get there yet, however I will sit and be with Jesus trusting there will be no pressure to figure it all out!