Dave's Diary

This week’s love language in our series called “Loving like Jesus” is Quality Time. People who speak this love language, prioritise giving undistracted time and undivided attention to others. They feel that they are being loving when they are present, attentive and focussed on the person they are with. Even time spent sitting in silence with someone is an expression of love for them.

Daily Reading: Genesis 5:21-24

“²² … Enoch lived in close fellowship with God… ²³ Enoch lived 365 years, ²⁴ walking in close fellowship with God.”

Commenting on this verse, Charles Spurgeon wrote: “If I wished to find a man’s most familiar friend it would surely be one with whom he daily walked… In walking, friends become communicative — one tells his trouble, and the other strives to console him under it, and then imparts to him his own secret in return … Enoch’s life has no adventures; is it not adventure enough for a man to walk with God? What ambition can crave a nobler existence than abiding in fellowship with the Eternal?” 

Through our relationship with Jesus, Christians have the great privilege of having access to unhindered fellowship with God. If we are not making the intentional effort of spending focussed, quality time simply being in fellowship with God – with no agenda whatsoever other than being together – we should ask the Lord’s forgiveness for this neglect and turn back to the habit of doing so. We owe that to the Lord, but we also owe it to ourselves, for by our neglect we are robbing ourselves of the opportunity for immense depth of intimacy with God. Through spending quality time with God we experience His love, we are assured of His affection and acceptance, and we gradually become more like Him.

This week, before we seek to apply the love language of quality time to any human relationships, let’s apply it to our relationship with the Lord.

Father, I seek you now. Into Your presence I come, simply to be with you, to walk or sit with You in silence, to pay attention to Your whispers, and to enjoy quality time of intimacy with You. Amen.