Yes, Come

The Way We Show Up Matters

I woke up one morning early. Extra early. I am not usually early for things. Some may say I arrive the opposite. Some have called it “Makenna time”. Some may even relate it to “Island time”.

Well, that morning I laid there eyes wide open at 5:07am. My alarm is set to go off in a few minutes. I tossed, I turned. I thought about staying still. I thought about resting my eyes just a few more moments. I thought about staying just a little longer.

The night before I had been reading in Matthew where Jesus calls His disciples to get out of the boat. A story of Jesus asking Peter to come to Him. To step out of the boat and Jesus says to him, “Yes, Come”

At the command, Peter steps out of the boat. From a raft of comfortability. Not leaning on his own human understanding of gravity, weight and physics. Rather leaning on the words, “Yes, come”.

The boat in our lives may look different. For me this morning, the boat was my bed. He was calling me out of the comfort of my bed to come to step out on the water with Him and spend an extra 30 minutes with Him. To begin my quiet time earlier that morning.

It has looked different day in and day out. The boat was once shying away from a hard conversation. It was once avoiding a call to open up to a group of new friends. It was once not publishing this 2-page journal entry.  

He may be asking us to step out of planning, overthinking, or controlling.

He may be asking us to get out of our own distractions or our busyness. It may even be our calendars.

May we not miss out on the call to adventure alongside Him. For we do not grow where we are comfortable.

I find that the best stories do not come from rafts of comfort.

The moment of today may feel small, it may feel insignificant. It is not. It is building a foundation for something so much bigger than ourselves, our imaginations, and our understandings.

And how we start our mornings can be imperative for the rest of the day.

How we show up at 5:48 am to the call, allows me at 12:37 pm, make a normal conversation, more fruitful. When I showed up at work, my call looked different. When I showed up at 5pm that day for a run, I was still resting in my quiet time with the Lord. Now 12 days later, I am able to sit down and right about this because of that very moment.

Remember that often the bigger things were once smaller things at one point.  

He is making ordinary moments, meaningful and extraordinary.

Do not miss a moment.

There is time. Create the space, the place to set aside time. Come to the Creator of time and see how He multiplies the fruitfulness of time.

This is worship. This is obedience.

Each is unique, each person, each heart is unique in the way they approach the Father.

Lean in to that. What is best for you, may not be the best for the person next to you.

He knows you, sees you + wants time with you.

Run your race, at your own pace.

I sit here now writing this to tell you that the Creator of the whole universe, would love for you to sit at His feet.

How we fill our cup matters. What we listen and see, allows us to show up for the moments throughout the day. May we fill up with the living water, by abiding in the Word.

Open the Word to abide by the Word.

To get to know someone, you probably have spent time with them a time or two. To really know someone, you have to spend intentional time together.

Ultimately, we must spend time with Him to know Him. He is calling us to more. He is calling us to come sit and hear.

When you wake up or set aside your quiet time in the afternoon or evening, just be with Him.

He wants us to come rest, to come sit with Him.

This reminds me of when Jesus enters Martha’s home. Martha welcomed Jesus in and had her sister there also. It says, “ And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. Then Jesus said, “ Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her”

Luke 10:39-40 + 42

Our hearts can be set on serving the Lord or doing more great and good things. May we just remember that the good portion was found at His feet. The good portion was found when she was listening to His teaching. May we fill our minds with His teaching, His parables, His Word.  

We cannot pour from an empty cup. And it matters where we source the water. How we fill up can lead how we show up. How we fill up and show up matters.

The good portion can begin with a sermon on a walk. It can begin with reading a verse a day.

Then maybe two or a few verses each day. Then maybe a chapter a day. Maybe it’s starting in John or Proverbs.

It may be at night instead of the morning.

It may be turning on a worship song in the morning when you wake up. It may look like praying deeper and bolder.

It may be journaling and writing out your prayers.

It may be a devotional. It may be multiple chapters at once.

Whatever it may be or when it may be, it’s about the posture of our hearts. May our hearts be bent towards Him. May our feet be aligned with His.  

He meets us wherever we are.  

See how He is leading you + lean into the call.

Whatever He is calling you to, I pray you step into this. I am alongside you.

It will look different for each and every follower of Christ. Our hearts are so uniquely created and tied to the Creator.

These moments may seem simple. This is where we grow. This is where and when we discover all that He is calling us to.  

May we then walk differently, love intently, and grow into all that we have been called to be because of His words, “Yes, come to me.”

Always cheering you on,

Xo Makenna Elisabeth