Day by day, the Lord leads me by means of His written Phrase. He exhibits me what to do, what to say, how you can deal with conditions. As a result of let’s face it…life is difficult and stuffed with pitfalls!
However every day as I research the Phrase of God and His precepts, He’s guiding me.
To get by means of my day, properly, to get by means of LIFE truly. 🙂 I completely discover it CRUCIAL to spend time with Him.
There’s not a day that goes by that I can’t sit at His toes, asking Him what He may have me do at the moment.
I WANT for use by Him. He provides me such an unimaginable starvation and need to serve others for Him and at the moment, He’s requested me to inform you, “His mercy endures perpetually”. 🙂
It comes from Psalm 118:1-4.
Give because of the Lord, for He’s good;
For His mercy is eternal.
Let Israel say,
“His mercy is eternal.”
Oh let the home of Aaron say,
“His mercy is eternal.”
Let these who worry the Lord say,
“His mercy is eternal.”
What catches my consideration essentially the most is the final half…let those that worry the Lord.
I’ve to confess, once I first began learning the Bible as a brand new believer, I had no thought what the “worry of the Lord” meant.
Is He some hearth and brimstone God that’s going to strike folks down for some twisted kick? Is He a God of oppression? We must always all FEAR the Lord. He’ll abuse us?
However none of that’s true! Whereas He IS simply and honest (ask ANY considered one of my enemies! 😛 ) and there is part of Him that IS chastisement and punishment after we disobey Him, it’s by no means imply. He punishes us for correction, to get our consideration, to get us to obey, to name us again to Him, as a result of He loves us so very a lot.
So we have to take a look at the phrase “worry”.
What does it imply?
To us, in our tradition at the moment, worry means terror, dread, nervousness, fright, apprehension.
However that’s under no circumstances what worry means within the Bible.
Concern on this case right here within the textual content, it means a way of respect, awe, and submission.
We’re to be in AWE of the Lord.
We’re to respect Him tremendously.
We’re to be in submission to our God.
However I wasn’t. I didn’t have an actual GOOD, stable sense of AWE for Him. No surprise or amazement in my coronary heart and I actually wished to study what the worry of the Lord meant and so early on in my Christian stroll, I prayed.
I requested God to provide me an understanding (not a data OF), however an EXPERIENCIAL understanding of the worry of the Lord.
Nothing occurred instantly. However over time, I began to see His amazingness. I’ve seen miracles such as you wouldn’t imagine!
Issues that make you drop down and reward the Lord.
I’ve seen issues that aren’t POSSIBLE occur change into doable.
How was it that I might reside such a rich way of life on solely $18k/yr earlier than I began running a blog?
I imply, at one level, I wished to see the place and the way I used to be doing it and I did an excellent deep research of my balances and revenue and bills.
On paper, it wasn’t doable. The revenue was $18k, the bills have been over that. There was no different revenue. No different issues coming in and YET, I used to be in a position to have round $7k in my financial savings account! Whereas residing on $18k, my BILLS have been $1,495/month, then you definately add in extras. Issues like shampoo, conditioner, paper towels. Something that the “payments” didn’t cowl. That’s AT LEAST a superb $200-$300/month-ish.
So my revenue was $18k and my complete LIVING EXPENSES have been round $1,700-$1,800ish/month. That places me at about $20,400-$21,600/yr. The residing bills have been greater than my revenue and YET, I used to be ALSO in a position to save $7k for a automobile. That may put me round $27,400-$28,600/yr on a $18k/yr revenue and but, I accrued completely no debt.
You see what I imply?
On paper, it doesn’t make sense. There’s no doable means for that to occur. In any respect. It’s completely unimaginable. UNLESS…
Until you’ve a God that isn’t certain by the legal guidelines of OUR world. He can do something He needs and He was blessing me, miraculously.
It was awe-inspiring to observe and through the years, that’s simply ONE instance of all of the issues He’s achieved in my life.
I feel that we now have to REMEMBER Him.
Bear in mind these miracles.
Bear in mind His energy. His majesty. Bear in mind.
As a result of, over time, we begin to overlook issues like that. How He works miracles on a regular basis. How He exhibits us His mercy and style time and time once more.
How has He blessed you in a time when it wasn’t doable and but, it was taking place? There might be no clarification EXCEPT FOR Christ.
I wager you’ll be able to level to not less than one time in your life, if no more!
Whereas His mercy for us is in lots of areas, have you ever thought-about that fearing the Lord IS His mercy to you?
I imply, REALLY take into consideration this.
He’s a giant God, created the entire universe, proper?!
He doesn’t HAVE TO present us His awesomeness. What massive deal wouldn’t it be to a God so massive like that if WE, puny little people, imagine Him?!
However that He loves us! And so it DOES matter.
It proves His goodness. When we now have a proper understanding of the worry of the Lord, we worship Him. We reward Him. And in that, we convey Him honor.
He’s worthy to be praised, oh how He’s!
At the moment as you go about your day, I would like you to consider all of the ways in which He’s proven you His awesomeness. The issues He’s achieved that appear unimaginable.
How has He proven you Matthew 19:26 is true? “With males that is unimaginable, however with God all issues are doable.”
WE, as people, are certain by the legal guidelines of the world. Of Earth. However HE….is NOT!
What’s unimaginable for US, is nothing to God. He’s not certain by our guidelines. Nothing is unimaginable for Him!
Do you’ve a superb sense of worry of the Lord?
If not, pray for it.
Pray for Him that will help you have that sense of surprise and awe and respect for Him that’s so essential to our lives as godly folks. Ask Him that will help you EXPERIENCE this and never simply have a working data of it, however to expertise it and see it first hand so that you could be know.
Actually, His mercy endures perpetually! He’s good and simply, honest and righteous. He’s worthy to be praised and beloved and cherished day by day, hourly, minute by minute!
He’s sort to the brokenhearted.
He’s close to to the poor in spirit.
He’s a merciful God and we are able to thank Him for loving us so tremendously as He does! 🙂
