Our Walk with God 8/22/13
Our Personal Relationship with God and Gods promises to us…. (Continues)
Yesterday we stopped at Deuteronomy 30: 9 and today we will begin with:
Psalm 27: 4-5 One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion: in the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me upon a rock.
Okay let’s remember that David more than likely wrote this Psalm. Do you remember David? He is the King that was to follow Saul…and something occurred with their relationship after they had been to battle….when they arrived back at home the people where chanting, ”Saul has killed his thousands and David, his ten thousands!” This made Saul jealous, and we all know what jealousy can do to a person. So think of this verse as coming from a man who is running for his life…and as he is running he knows that God will protect him. Now David’s walk wasn’t always squeaky clean, there were times that David did things that God was sorely disappointed with David, but God, knew David’s heart and what David’s future held. David realizes that the: one thing I have desired of the Lord was his personal relationship with God. David desired the closeness of that kind of relationship, and he says to himself, “that will I seek after!” Have you ever been sitting quietly, perhaps in your secret place, and suddenly you had a light bulb come on, or as I like to call it, “had an epiphany?” I love that word, it says so much…back to David…David suddenly realizes that where he wants to be is in his Father’s presence David knows that when he’s with God, trouble can’t find him because God will hide him and protect him.
Just like in the present time, You don’t have to be living in the time of King Saul and David to have me to protect you, I will protect you now, in 2013 and 2014, no matter the time I am here, let me be your hiding place in time of trouble. Wow, that was God was God you all. I love it when He does that! As Pastor Don would say, “Yay God!” When I sit down to write my blogs in the wee hours of the mornings, I am up at 4:30 AM (Yes 4:30 comes twice a day) I make my husband his lunch and a cup of coffee for myself and I am on to the computer to see what God wants me to say today! And sometimes I am privileged to have Him speak thru my fingers to the keyboard to you all, what can I say but “Yay God!” Back to matters at hand! God wants us to know that He is here for us, He has promised us this! And God doesn’t break His promises! David sought after God just like we can seek after God! And you know what is really amazing about all of this? God has wanted the same things from His people since forever! I was going to put since the beginning of time, but God has been around since before that, God has always been!
Well let’s move on to the next verse: Psalm 30:5 For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning. God is telling us here that we may have a trial or two or three, but there will be JOY that follows these trials. And sometimes, not sometimes, but most of the time, we need these trials to make us better people for God! I don’t want to see my children sad! I want to see them joyful! There was a time in my life, and you can ask my now grown children to verify this, when I was coming out of a not great relationship with the narcissist, and I was sad all the time, and I was crying almost all the time! I had given my gift of Joy, that I had received from God, to this man, and therefore I had no Joy, until I realized this and had to go to my secret place and talk to God and ask Him for another fill up, if you would, of the Joy that I had once had. And when I began walking more closely to God and talking more with Him, I was restored to Him. And yes just like this Psalm says I believe that God was angry at me for just a moment in time, but after the weeping, joy came in the morning, Thank you Daddy!
Our Personal Relationship with God and Gods promises to us…. (Continues)
Yesterday we stopped at Deuteronomy 30: 9 and today we will begin with:
Psalm 27: 4-5 One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion: in the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me upon a rock.
Okay let’s remember that David more than likely wrote this Psalm. Do you remember David? He is the King that was to follow Saul…and something occurred with their relationship after they had been to battle….when they arrived back at home the people where chanting, ”Saul has killed his thousands and David, his ten thousands!” This made Saul jealous, and we all know what jealousy can do to a person. So think of this verse as coming from a man who is running for his life…and as he is running he knows that God will protect him. Now David’s walk wasn’t always squeaky clean, there were times that David did things that God was sorely disappointed with David, but God, knew David’s heart and what David’s future held. David realizes that the: one thing I have desired of the Lord was his personal relationship with God. David desired the closeness of that kind of relationship, and he says to himself, “that will I seek after!” Have you ever been sitting quietly, perhaps in your secret place, and suddenly you had a light bulb come on, or as I like to call it, “had an epiphany?” I love that word, it says so much…back to David…David suddenly realizes that where he wants to be is in his Father’s presence David knows that when he’s with God, trouble can’t find him because God will hide him and protect him.
Just like in the present time, You don’t have to be living in the time of King Saul and David to have me to protect you, I will protect you now, in 2013 and 2014, no matter the time I am here, let me be your hiding place in time of trouble. Wow, that was God was God you all. I love it when He does that! As Pastor Don would say, “Yay God!” When I sit down to write my blogs in the wee hours of the mornings, I am up at 4:30 AM (Yes 4:30 comes twice a day) I make my husband his lunch and a cup of coffee for myself and I am on to the computer to see what God wants me to say today! And sometimes I am privileged to have Him speak thru my fingers to the keyboard to you all, what can I say but “Yay God!” Back to matters at hand! God wants us to know that He is here for us, He has promised us this! And God doesn’t break His promises! David sought after God just like we can seek after God! And you know what is really amazing about all of this? God has wanted the same things from His people since forever! I was going to put since the beginning of time, but God has been around since before that, God has always been!
Well let’s move on to the next verse: Psalm 30:5 For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning. God is telling us here that we may have a trial or two or three, but there will be JOY that follows these trials. And sometimes, not sometimes, but most of the time, we need these trials to make us better people for God! I don’t want to see my children sad! I want to see them joyful! There was a time in my life, and you can ask my now grown children to verify this, when I was coming out of a not great relationship with the narcissist, and I was sad all the time, and I was crying almost all the time! I had given my gift of Joy, that I had received from God, to this man, and therefore I had no Joy, until I realized this and had to go to my secret place and talk to God and ask Him for another fill up, if you would, of the Joy that I had once had. And when I began walking more closely to God and talking more with Him, I was restored to Him. And yes just like this Psalm says I believe that God was angry at me for just a moment in time, but after the weeping, joy came in the morning, Thank you Daddy!
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