The necessity of communing with God in the life of a believer

I love the phrase, "communing with God." It is a staggering phrase that I think many believers take for granted. And I believe far too many believers don't enjoy the marvelous privilege it is to commune with God. We call it many different things... quiet time, devotions, God and I time, etc. And for many it can either be an infrequent practice, or it is more consistently practiced but done out of obligation or duty.

This discipline should be one of the sweetest parts of our day, something to look forward to and something that is invigorating and nourishing to the soul. For those who struggle, perhaps a word from George Mueller would help:

“The primary business I must attend to every day is fellowship with the Lord. The first concern is not how much I might serve the Lord, but how my inner man might be nourished. I may share the truth with the unconverted; I may try to encourage believers; I may relieve the distressed; or I may, in other ways, seek to behave as a child of God; yet, not being happy in the Lord and not being nourished and strengthened in my inner man day by day, may result in this work being done in a wrong spirit. The most important thing I had to do was to read the Word of God and to meditate on it. Thus my heart might be comforted, encouraged, warned, reproved, and instructed…. What a difference there is when the soul is refreshed in fellowship with God early in the morning! Without spiritual preparation, the service, the trials, and the temptations of the day can be overwhelming.”

May those words encourage the weary, bring perspective to the duty-bound, and motivate us all to enjoy the gracious privilege it is for us to have sweet fellowship with our perfect Father. Stay tuned for more George Muller and more encouragement to "commune with God."