This morning it is my delight to reflect on how good it is to go to sleep thinking about Your love toward me throughout the day. Of the times I felt in need and prayed, then strength and quietness came into my mind; when perplexity and threatening disquiet was there before. To wake after ‘the sleep of the exhausted’, my thoughts arise to my God again, and naturally I offer praises and ask that I may walk with Him, all day in His care; happy in the assurance this gives me. Psalm 73: 23 “Nevertheless I am continually with You; You hold me by my right hand. 24 You will guide me with Your counsel……… 25 Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.” I will not forget to cry out in bad times, Verses 26 “My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 28 But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all Your works.” These words echo in my mind today, for I have reached out and You my God have filled my questions and needs.
Today I cannot be silent and not testify about the all-encompassing goodness, love and care of God toward me and all who believe His promises, and I resolve to, move over and give Him my heart and mind. Psalm 86; 10-13”For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are God. 11 Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; unite my heart to fear Your name. 12 I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Your name forevermore.”
No matter what wrong we have done individually, we read promises in the scriptures that give assurance, that Gods love toward us is everlasting. I have observed and experienced that to stop there and not love Him back and comply with the written counsel for conduct and living, not only hurts ourselves, but all those around us as well. It is only by committing and experiencing His love, and life lived His way, do we even begin to appreciate we have been missing the blessings in store for each one of us. My thoughts are not new observations, and are found in Psalm 119: 2, 3 “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart! They also do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.”
I wonder why so many of us do not heed the advice and testimonies of those who have gone before, and instead must walk in our own disaster first! In humbling need, I sincerely seek God and to come closer, plus walk in His ways. Verses 10 – 12 “With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You. 12 Blessed are You, O lord! Teach me Your statutes.”