January 25, 2022
Thank you Yahweh, for a new day. I will keep thanking you for all that you do because you didn’t have to do it. You don’t have to wake me up. You don’t have to feed me or clothe me, but you do. Sooooo. Thank you. Thank you for being such a wonderful and caring God. Today, I pray for your grace as we make the moves/spins today, may we find favour in your sight. I pray that my choices would be acceptable in your sight.
I lift up mom and dad to you. I pray that your peace would reign in them that all they do would draw others to you. Let your light shine through them, so that you would be glorified.
Pleasing Yahweh:
So should I live to please Yahweh? Or should I trust him to live? The thing is we want to please Yahweh. Who doesn’t want to please the one we love? Who doesn’t want to see them smile because of something we did for them? I know I do. I want to see the ones that I love happy and that includes doing things that make them happy.
But
Isaiah 55:8-9 – For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways and my thoughts higher than your ways and your thoughts.
It’s interesting to note that the preceding scriptures call for us to come to Yahweh. Come and eat without having to buy. We are encouraged to seek the Lord, to turn to him. But human nature believes in doing. What Yahweh is calling us to do seems too simple for such an awesome God. So instead of doing what he asks us to do, which is to come to him and to trust him. We bring our works to him as a sacrifice. But the sacrifice he keeps asking for is a contrite heart. To truly please Yahweh we need to trust him. Because without faith (trust) it is impossible to please him. So we can please him by trusting him. Trusting him to take care, to direct us, to love us beyond measure. When we trust him, the “actions” he desires from us will follow. We need to have the motive of why we do what we do, right.
1 Samuel 16:7 – But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outer appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
Yahweh, my heart is yours. I choose to trust you. Search my heart and whatever is not of you please remove and cleanse. It is easy to fall into the trap of “doing” to please you because we like action. But our actions must be in accordance with your will: what you desire and the only way to know what you desire for our lives is to trust you.
You are God. We are human. Made in your image but still human. While there are so many aspects of you that we relate to from a human standpoint – for that heart to heart connection, we can’t think like we do. We have to trust you and your heart will connect us.
Pleasing you is the outcome of trusting you. Cause and effect. Conditional. You are pleased when we trust you, that’s it. Simple as that. No acrobatics. New hoops to jump through. Help me to trust you, not to do things of my own accord but to trust you and rely on you.
Perfection could never earn it. Never earn it. It is freely given and we accept. Nothing we do will be worth it.
So I just want to say thank you. A weird thought occurred to me while listening to a speaker. He mentioned that we get up and go about all day as normal and then Yahweh steps in and re-writes the day. And the weird thought that came to me was: like getting fired. And I realise that while I have not gotten certain jobs, I don’t remember being fired from a job and I am grateful for that. Even more grateful when some of the jobs I remember applying for and NOT getting, turned out to be weights around the necks of those who did get the job. Yahweh, I am thankful for closed doors that prevent us from being destroyed. Thank you for always watching over your word and over me even when I don’t see it and have taken it for granted. Yahweh, I don’t want to get so comfortable that I am no longer in awe of who you are and what you do. You are a great God and I thank you.
What do I have need of?
The truth is: like so many other things, I’ve hidden my needs. I tried to hide my emotions for years because people said I was too sensitive. So I hid when I hurt and cried into my pillow because my pillow did not judge me. I am thankful that in this season, I am willing to admit the things (whatever form they may take) that I need, but with the acknowledgment that the needs may not be met the way I may think they should be or the way I may hope. But Yahweh has promised:
Philippians 4:19 – But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Matthew 6:8 – Be not ye therefore like unto them,: for your father knoweth what things we have need of, before we ask him.
NEED: require something because it is essential or very important rather than just desirable.
All your “need.” It is singular. I never noticed that before. “Desires” are usually plural. We will always need Jesus.
SIDEBAR: Yahweh, help me to let go of what I think something should look like. Everyone has their focus and help me to not insist on “my” vision but yours.
