It's amazing how one day of solely trying to focus on my relationship with Jesus how much He speaks to me through His Word and through other things. In the past I have always experienced His way of speaking to me through the scriptures, but I haven't spent that much time focusing on what He really wants to say to me. I would just read a little and then go to bed. I happened to forget the part that God ACTUALLY wants to talk with me. How unbelievably awesome is that?!?! To have a relationship with my Creator seems so unfathomable. Why would He want to do that with someone like me? It's because He made me in His image and I am His child. What loving parent doesn't want to know their child? Better yet, what child doesn't want to know their parent? So, between yesterday and early this morning, God has downloaded so much into my life already.
Last night, as I was spending time with God, I heard Him tell me to look at Psalm 139. Wow, was it what I needed to hear at the moment!
1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.
3 You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
5 You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.
He knows me inside and out. He knows all my desires. He knows what I'm going to do before I do that. He knows everything about me. Just as David says, it is "too wonderful for me." It's called learning to trust in Jesus. If He knows what's going to happen with my life, why not have a relationship with Him to help guide me through it? Seriously, who wouldn't want a God like my God?
On another note, I started reading Crazy Love by Francis Chan yesterday. Oh my goodness!!! This book is so PERFECT for my life right now. It is just a confirmation to the fact that how could I not want a relationship with the person who created me, how could I put other things before Him. I'm only into chapter two, but I have seriously gained so much. Chan is super forward, and I love it!
"Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh but that's seriously what it means. Maybe life's pretty good for you right now. God has given you this good stuff so that you can show the world a person who enjoys blessings, but who is still totally obsessed with God...To be brutally honest, it doesn't really matter what place you find yourself in right now. Your part is to bring Him glory...The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His." (Crazy Love 44-45)
The fact that he just states YOU NEED TO GET OVER YOURSELF is purely awesome. I mean, how true is that?!?! My life isn't about me. It's about how much glory can I give to God, the Maker of the universe. It's about displaying myself as someone who IS totally obsessed with God. Later in that same chapter, Chan goes on to say: "I am thankful for the unknowns and that I don't have control, because it makes me run to God" (Crazy Love, 45). I'm obviously at a couple points in my life of encountering unknowns. But you know what, Chan's right! These times are making me draw closer to Him. It's making me want to focus on getting to know Him and seeing my plan revealed through my relationship with Him.
However, as I was getting ready this morning, I heard God whisper to look at Psalm 17. So I did, and I found that it was just another confirmation as to my focus on my relationship with Him. This is the current verse I am meditating on today:
"As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness." (Psalm 17:15)
I want to strive after not being satisfied until I wake up in His likeness. I want David's cry to be my same cry. Lord, I want more of You and less of me. Mold me and shape me to be like You.
Just because this video is amazing, I thought you'd want to check it out. It goes with Chan's Crazy Love. Enjoy!
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