It can easily get away from me.

My time with Jesus, that is.

A busy work schedule. A wedding season to celebrate friends. Even serving at church.

It can all call me quickly away from spare moments with my Love.

One of the biggest reasons though, isn’t really due to any of those things.

It’s because I like things, the way I like them.

Spending time with Jesus… I would rather do that with a nice cup of coffee, a fabulous writing pen and a serene space.

I don’t even really want to spend that special time with Jesus in my room or at my house.

It’s just not where I want it to happen.

Isn’t that weird? But maybe you are like me, where some days you just aren’t in the space where you really feel you can get intimate with Jesus.

I love the stories of Jesus in the Gospels.

They’re a picture of reality for us, reality of how Jesus is and how He walks with people.

I love how He constantly met people, radically changed their lives, and then repeated.

He didn’t have appointments. He didn’t have certain exclusive spaces where He met with people. He walked the roads, He ate the food, and He participated in the discussions just like He was any other man of normalcy.

And I think it may be religion that has guided me to this place of appropriating my time with Jesus to being “precisely pretty and formal”.

I think it’s common for us to need guidance in our relationship with Jesus.

But the one we need guidance from, we delay in coming to…

Because we need serenity, and a lot of time, and no distractions, and no worry to come to Him fully.

So we circle around ever meeting with Him.

Our lives become dry and in need of refreshing and saturating-love more than ever.

Jesus explains to His disciples something that we need to be reminded of often.

“I love each of you with the same love that the Father loves me. You must continually let my love nourish your hearts.” John 15:9 tpt

Continually. That’s such a powerful word.

Because, I notice, and you notice when we aren’t continually letting His love nourish us.

When something isn’t nourished it’s “abandoned, neglected, deprived, hurt, starved, ignored, condemned and discouraged.”

But when something is nourished it’s “cherished, cultivated, attended, sustained, comforted, encouraged, provided for and supported.”

Isn’t it ironic that when we are days in, weeks in, months in a cycle of busyness away from Jesus, we start to worry about being cherished by people? We start seeking comfort from anywhere and everywhere. We crave encouragement from anyone that is willing. We desire to be attended to. We doubt if we are going to be provided for or supported in our current season.

The enemy has bound us so easily, yet powerlessly to have us in a belief pattern that we have to have things in order or even look a certain way before we “have an appointment” with Jesus.

As long as we believe that walking with Jesus is about appointments and not friendship, love, admiration and fun, we will continue to miss out on the fruit of a nourished heart.

“I am the sprouting vine and you’re my branches. As you live in union with me as your source, fruitfulness will stream from within you—but when you live separated from me you are powerless.” John 15:5 tpt

Living a powerful life, isn’t being born with a better gene or a more relevant talent. It’s being connected with Jesus as He has been connected with us and chosen us.

So today, sever the cord that has been pulling you to believe that things have to be different than they are right now to be with Jesus.

Because they don’t.

Right now is a good time to just be with Jesus.