Have You Ever Been Alone With God? Part 2

Today, Oswald Chambers talks about, His Solitude with Us. He talks about how God gets us alone...by affliction, heartbreak, or temptation, by disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted affection, by a broken friendship, or by a new friendship--What drives you to God? Sometimes the only way that God can get any time alone with us is by allowing what we think are bad things to happen to us because He knows that when these things happen, that we will turn to Him. Chambers goes on to say that when God gets us absolutely alone, we are dumbfounded, and cannot ask one question, then He (God) begins to expound. God desires for us to spend time with Him, quality time. Time when it's not always us talking, asking for stuff. Time just enjoy Him and He you. Time not thinking about anything other than God. I wonder if when God and Adam walked in the Garden of Eden in the cool of the evening, if at times they were content to just to be in each other's presence without talking, but they knew the other's heart? I believe that it is in these times of Silence and Solitude that we learn to hear God speak to us more clearly, more intimately. I believe that it is in these times of Silence & Solitude that God can and will do His best work of healing, molding, shaping, transforming us into the image of His Son.