Dear God,
It is very special to be in Your presence again in the early morning time. You direct Your servant through the scriptures to give understanding and impress my mind with spiritual needs. I find also the desire to confess my sins, gain an insight into my character deficiencies and am given a desire to ask how to change. I am directed to texts that state the offers to fulfil my every need through Your love and power. The requirement is, that I humble myself and ask for help, and no matter how sinful, self-sufficient and proud I have been, all can be forgiven and reversed, by our Most Holy God.
Isaiah 57:15 “For thus says the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: ‘I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the contrite one.” With so much apostasy and waywardness amongst people who thought they satisfied You with the ordinances performed in worship, to actually receive a rebuke, contains a lesson for us today. It is the humble obedient worship and service, which pleases You, not many showy actions, without trusting love.
When Your people or church are rebelliously doing actions not as You have outlined, as though being good for us, and are disrespectful to You, they are always plainly rebuked. You never take Your loving eyes off us and just as plainly call us back to receive forgiveness in love and mercy, followed up with other blessings and fruit of the Spirit in our character. Psalm 34:18 “The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit.”
I choose You again today, and as promised in Your word, the thoughts and emotions that are like a ‘troubled sea ‘and never at rest, with thoughts that cast up ‘mire and dirt’, (Isaiah 57:20) need not be when we accept Your words for ourselves, and our reward shall be, Psalm 33:21 “For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His Holy name.”