Make God’s Special Time ... Cindy Oriol

When we are going through our trials and tribulations, we do not need to be afraid or feel as if we are alone. God will never leave us. We just need to wait patiently and see how He will deliver us through our problems.

The movie ‘The Ten Commandments’ is a great illustration for us to follow. The Israelites were being delivered by God from slavery, and Moses led them to the Red Sea. At first glance, it looked as if there was no way they could pass through. There were mountains on both sides and the Red Sea running through them, and Pharaoh’s army was in pursuit. The Israelites were terrified, but God parted the Red Sea so they could continue on their journey to the Promised Land.

We too become afraid when our problems escalate and we feel as if everything is hopeless. But all we need to do is make time for God by reading our Bible, devotionals, and being grounded in a Bible study.

The storms of life can really bring us conflict if we allow them to. They will steal away our time with God, by causing us to become so busy wondering how we can solve our problems instead of giving them to God right away and leaving them in His capable hands.

If we do not make time with Him, it is like a slap to His face! We do not think enough about Him that we can not even share a part of our day to communicate with Him. This is not how it should be. He loves every one of us so much that He sent His one and only begotten Son, Jesus, to die on the cross and take away our sins.

We are His children, and He is our affectionate Father. I do not want to make Him grieve in any way and that is what I would be doing if I did not spend special and quality time with Him.

The Bible is the best book we can ever read. It holds the answers to all the questions we may ever ask. Seek deeply into it, making sure not to miss any of the words, and you will find the missing link you have been searching for. Reading it in total quietness is like communing face to face with God.

I enjoy beginning my mornings by singing a hymn. I love finding one that sings praises to Him. Then I read several devotionals from Billy Graham, Sara Young, Joni Eareckson Tada, and others. They often pertain to what I am going through at the time. They are peaceful and very helpful. Finally, I open my Bible to see what scriptures will jump off the pages and teach me what God wants me to learn for the day.

When I look back on the thirty-five-year-long practice and career He chose for me, I am grieved not from my career but from the many hours I worked each day taking care of my patients. I would rush home, cook supper, clean the dishes, take a hot bath to relax my muscles, and watch part of a tv program while conversing with my husband about our day. Finally, after I was so exhausted, I would crawl into bed with my Bible, read a few passages, and fall asleep before I finished a chapter.

That was not spending quality time with Him. I was rushing it and trying to squeeze everything into the day. By doing this, I missed out on so many blessings of reading God’s breathed words to his prophets & disciples.

He wants us to come before Him on bended knees and talk to Him as if we were conversing with our earthly father. He already knows our every want and need. When we boldly come to the ‘throne of grace’ and lay everything before Him and we cry out, Abba, which in Aramaic means, Father. He is here to listen. We may not see Him, but He is here.

“But I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me.” (Hosea 13:4 NIV)

“Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.” (Psalm 37:4 NIV)

In Christian Love, Cindy Oriol

Cindy Oriol

Cindy Oriol is the author of “IF ONLY” and “ HAVING JOY IN THE MIDST OF THE STORM.” They were written by the Holy Spirit and me to encourage anyone that is going through a storm in their life. No matter how many storms we have to endure as long as we hold tight to Jesus we can make it through anything.