Sometimes God wants us to just “hang out.” For those unfamiliar with the term, it means to let things happen, to not worry about what’s coming up tomorrow, but to rub elbows with our friends and family, and just see what comes our way.
When we hang out, it shows a certain level of comfort with other people. We don’t expect them to be anything other than what they are, and we feel equally comfortable with what we are.
Take Abraham, for example. It was when he took time to simply “hang out” that God was able to move and do things in his life.
Genesis 22:19 tells us:
“So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelled at Beersheba.”
The great father of three faiths was simply “hanging out” with his buddies. He was chilling his heels, having fun in the sun, and not really stressing over anything. Then, things began to happen, including the story of Isaac and his new bride Rebekah.
Where is our Beersheba? Where do we go to hang out with God? Where do we “chill out” enough that we can hear his voice?
Here are three reasons it is important to slow down our lives enough for God to be able to speak to us:
John 16:13 tells us:
“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.”
2 Timothy 2:2 tells us:
“And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.”
1 John 4:1 tells us:
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
If we’re not in our Beersheba, we can’t hear the word of the Lord. We’ll be so busy doing “good” things for God that we’ll miss the still, small voice that leads us the way he wants us to go. It’s time to slow down and hang out with God. It’s what he wants, anyway, our time. He wants to know we love him, and when we spend our hours with him, he can tell us he loves us in return.
It’s the time we spend with God that tells him how much we love him.
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