In the Presence

I was sitting in Starbucks yesterday visiting with my good friends Kevin Rogers and Justin Mitchell when I happened to notice an older couple sitting across the coffee shop. What caught my attention was not what they were doing, rather, what they were not doing. They were not talking, laughing, sharing stories or anything like that.

Instantly I had the urge to laugh and I pointed this couple out to Kevin and Justin. However, God grabbed me and gave me a life lesson that I have not been able to get out of my head since that time. Here was a couple that had obviously been together for sometime. A couple who has surely been through sickness, health, prosperity, despairity, and here they were at Starbucks, enjoying coffee with one another without sharing a word. In this instance, no words needed to be said. They were simply enjoying each others company enough to rest in the fact that they were together. After about five minutes of watching the couple, they looked at each other, and, without a word, stood up and walked out of Starbucks, back into their lives.

This occurence, although awkward for me at first, showed that I need to have that kind of intimate time with Christ in my own life. The Bible calls the church the bridegroom of Christ, and I fully believe that as Christians, all of us need to take the time to simply rest in Christ. Just as this couple was doing so genuinely at Starbucks, sometimes we as humans need to lay down everything that is going on in our day to spend time in Christ; to let Christ dwell within us.

Think about it.