O God, you are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
in a dry and weary land
where there is no water. Psalm 63:1
My Sisters in whom is the very life of Christ,
David expressed his heart hunger in this Psalm. We enter a new month with it's pocket full of difficulty, joys and sorrows. Our faith will be renewed and strengthened and tested in ways we would not choose. Experience teaches 'difficulty' is a severe instructor.
Isaiah wrote:
But I said, “I have labored in vain;
I have spent my strength for nothing at all.
Yet what is due me is in the LORD’s hand,
and my reward is with my God.” Is 49:4
How often a trial has trampled through your life, leaving in its wake rubble and brokenness with nothing of value visible? You have stood strong in the Lord believing God rewards the righteous and your palm is outstretched waiting for the 'good' promised; but nothing.... You feel left alone and vulnerable, stripped, unrewarded, abandon and forgotten. Testing of our faith is full of what God wants to teach us and I remember the day God showed me a promise I believe is true for us as well as it was for Abram. Hold on and be blessed.
Only the mistakes are mine,
az
earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
in a dry and weary land
where there is no water. Psalm 63:1
My Sisters in whom is the very life of Christ,
David expressed his heart hunger in this Psalm. We enter a new month with it's pocket full of difficulty, joys and sorrows. Our faith will be renewed and strengthened and tested in ways we would not choose. Experience teaches 'difficulty' is a severe instructor.
Isaiah wrote:
But I said, “I have labored in vain;
I have spent my strength for nothing at all.
Yet what is due me is in the LORD’s hand,
and my reward is with my God.” Is 49:4
How often a trial has trampled through your life, leaving in its wake rubble and brokenness with nothing of value visible? You have stood strong in the Lord believing God rewards the righteous and your palm is outstretched waiting for the 'good' promised; but nothing.... You feel left alone and vulnerable, stripped, unrewarded, abandon and forgotten. Testing of our faith is full of what God wants to teach us and I remember the day God showed me a promise I believe is true for us as well as it was for Abram. Hold on and be blessed.
After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
Genesis 15:1 KJ
Feeling like a pawn on God's divine chess board, expendable and of very little value in the cosmic plan, I balked at the taste of God's Sovereignty crying out for mercy with all my heart. Slowly learning over many bitter trials "God Himself is my reward". Ask God to plant this truth deep in your heart. Growing in Christ is knowing Him more and more intimately. Sweeter and sweeter grows the wine of His Presence until no earthly offering, nor temporal possession nor reward proffered will ever compare to this sacred invasion of my being.
The Levites were given no possession in Israel: Ezekiel 44:28 “‘I am to be the only inheritance the priests have. You are to give them no possession in Israel; I will be their possession.
My heart is quickened reading His promise to the Levites and these words to Abram:
1. Do not fear
2. I am your shield
3. Your exceeding and great reward
Add your name to the end of each of the 3 statements. Read it again. How can we remain discouraged when we embrace such an amazing Truth?
Let me only enjoy the sweet company of the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ in my trial, and I ask no more. I do not want even the power of His hand to deprive me of one drop of consolation supplied by the tender love and profound sympathy of His heart. I know He can deliver me, but if He does not see fit to do so, if it does not fall in with His unsearchable counsels, and harmonize with His wise and faithful purpose concerning me so to do, I know it is only to lead me into deeper and richer realization of His most precious sympathy. C.H.M.
The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want. The Shepherd is my exceeding and great reward.
I am praying again Father, You who are my exceeding and great Reward. Who is so great as to say "Fear not, I am your Shield!" Only You. Your greatness is unsearchable. Give us heart-hunger for You and allow us to know You more and more intimately. Help us to trust You for all we do not understand and all we do understand. You are our possession and we are Yours! I am provoked to worship as I tap these keys. I need to stop, get on my knees and cry out holy praise to You. I am in awe of You, You who love perfectly. Enable my sisters and I to receive all that You so lavishly give. I pray in Jesus my Savior.
az
