Seeking –

Following Jesus from the Edges –

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Pastor Calvin Cook

With so many things on my list to pray about this morning – I just felt an overwhelming need to do what moments of surrender must look like – truly surrendering. 

The words of Psalm 27:8 “My heart says of you, “seek his face ! Your face, Lord, I will seek.”

As my mind begins to empty, as my heart finds rest, all of the request that I have this day, for self, for others, for care, for direction, for sicknesses, for blessings, maybe even for the impossibles –

I pray these words “I just want to be here in your presence, I just want to sit here at your feet, I never want to leave.”

This morning these words become more than words from a song I listen to frequently, they become the gateway of surrender in the presence of God where nothing else really seems to matter other than being with God, being in God’s presence, and surrendering the day that is past and the concerns of a new day to God.

I am humbled as I  laid in bed, as I now sit in the chair in the silence of the morning in a holy place of prayer. I truly never want to leave.

It is not in some grand sanctuary, not surrounded by the voices of many also listing their prayers and petitions, there is no one guiding my prayer or praying on my behalf, it is not orchestrated. 

I am humbled, that me a sinner, the fallen, fractured human I am can come into this place right where I am and be made whole, or at very least to be on the right path. To be able to sit by the stillness of the streams of mercy and experience something of grace that I can’t even begin to understand or imagine.

I truly never want to leave !

And I will trust that this will carry me through the day, in the way I relate, in the battles that come my way, in the burdens I carry and just simply know that there is always this place that I can be in wherever and who ever I am –

Though these are my intimate thoughts this morning that I share with you – the words that God spoke to Moses in Exodus 33 become a roadmap and direction for all of us –

“My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest” Exodus 33:14

Going just a little deeper with Jesus, never felt so good, as I strive to – follow Jesus from the edges.