God’s Word to You today Psalm 143:10
10 Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God!
Let your good Spirit lead me
on level ground!
I go back to work today. It has been 32 days since the surgery and in ways I am so ready. But honestly I know I will still be limited in what I can do. For a get it done guy like me it has been a challenge.
But a couple of weeks ago we started a 21 day fast at church. Between more down time and removing some things to give me more time to seek and see God I have to admit He has shown me and told me things. Some of them I already knew and needed reinforced. Some are things I thought I knew but realized I needed my view adjusted.
It has been a hard time and a good time. Kinda like how everyone focuses on how bad a year was and prays God gives them a better New Year? He never said He would take away pain and sorrow, trials and tribulations, until, until we go home. But He also says He is with us always.
During this time one thing that has been reinforced to me is how I start my day. I have done this for years but lets be honest, when we do the same thing day in and day out it is easy for that thing to become a habit and habits can be something we do because we are used to doing it. At that point we may end up doing it because we expect to do it or without thought do it.
Mine was my morning prayer. Waking up in pain, knowing or feeling I’m not needed like normal days and faced with nothing major to do for so long I think when I woke up I ended up realizing my morning prayer had become just words I spoke to Him. The passion of when I started those prayers had slowly disappeared behind the words and the world I faced daily.
Frustrations with how the world is and the feeling of not being able to help others like I wanted to, not being able to get others to understand my heart and love like I wanted to, not seeing the results I hoped to see, buried my passion and took my heart away from those prayers.
Just like you may have faced or may be facing, the depression and even the just being tired from or tired of battle was winning.
And this morning as I sat down to share my heart two things hit me. One was something JFK said while I was a child. He shared an amazing thought that has long been forgotten. He said “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” As I had this thought and the point I would make of his quote I also had a vision of our current president and how as unlikely he is of what we have become accustomed to for a president, I honestly think he is in his own way doing exactly what JFK asked those of us alive to do in his inaugural speech those many years ago. Much of the hate towards him is, I fear, because that statement has been convoluted to be backwards.
But I won’t get any further political and bring my point home.
We, as God’s people, have done the same thing with Him that the American people have done with those words. We pray for things. We pray for our wishes. We pray for our agendas. We even pray thanks. Well, for those things He gives us that align with our prayers. We even go so far as to say Expect big things from God, the whole time expecting the “big” things WE want, desire or expect.
But we stray away from the one thing He desires from us. We forget to say or pray or even think about what He loves to hear. We step away from asking the question He rarely hears asked.
So today I passionately speak this prayer, with my heart, with my soul and with my mind.
God, thank you for another day, thank you for this blessing. How can I bless You today?
me n’ God love ya