This morning God showed me a lesson I’m sure I’ve needed to learn for many years. It all started reading in Psalms and the word Selah. Joyce Meyer says the word selah means to pause and think about. She brings out that God wants us to read his word not just to know it but to let it sink into our inner being–our soul to impact our spiritual self. It sounds so odd but this is not new information. What is new is awakening to the fact that I’ve spent my whole life wanting to know Gods word and hoping it would impact my living. I’ve seen Selah lots of times in the Psalms. Now this one word has become a command–pause. 

How much I’ve needed to pause and let God speak to my soul. No wonder He wants to have the intimate relationship with us. Only in intimacy can someone reach into the guarded soul of our life. No wonder God tells us to guard how we influence little children. It says in Matthew it is better to be thrown into the midst of the sea with a millstone around our neck than to influence a child to do wrong. Little did I know how much I needed to trust my God and how much I didn’t until He has awakened me to this rich intimacy we are having today. He is the One True God. How grateful I am!