A BALM FOR THE SOUL

As I woke up this morning and made coffee I felt an urging to go to the piano and play it. This hasn't been a habit of mine lately due to writing the book and uploading it in order to make it available on Kindle. Also much time has been spent working on the music files we just completed uploading onto Amazon. I have been so caught up in the business of things that I haven’t spent very much time in my sanctuary.

As I sat playing the piano, the Lord started giving me another song. This is something that has only happened a few times in my life. When it does occur I am overwhelmed with gratitude that the Lord would allow me to be used this way.

The Lord has taken all my past fears and worries away many times during the time spent playing the piano. There have been times I felt life was useless and the defeat that engulfed my life would not let me go. During those times I would go to the piano to play a song or two and find myself there for hours. When I walked away from that instrument I realized my soul had found healing.

There are probably some of my readers that have experienced this exact feeling. The balm of healing for your soul may come through music, the scripture or a quiet walk out in the country.

Eventually you realize that this is your sanctuary. It's the place you go when you are sad, broken or feel hopeless. This is the place of healing for you. This place needs to not only be the place we go when we are defeated or hurt, it needs to be the place we go regularly. Each of us needs a place to go that is quiet, a place where the Lord can meet with us.

Have you visited that place, your sanctuary, lately? Allow the Lord to do more than just take your worries and fears away. Visit this place and allow him to fill you with something new and refreshing.

Too many times we move away from the sanctuary, once we have found the balm for our own soul, but the Lord is waiting there to give you more, much more. He may be wanting to fill you so that you can carry the balm of healing to someone else's soul. Are you willing to wait before the Lord in the sanctuary and allow him to use you?

Elijah was an ordinary man that did ordinary things but because he went to his sanctuary, and didn't leave until the Lord moved upon his life, great things happened. We read in I Kings chapter 18 how that Elijah had many ups and downs but we also see how he would go to his sanctuary and how the Lord would move in a mighty way. We need to allow the Lord to use us, just ordinary people, to do extraordinary things.

And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. (I Kings18:43-44)