I so love this passage for all the heart-warming assurances of God in it. It’s amazing to know that God knows everything about me. He knows what I am going to say even before I say it. I can’t pretend before my Lord, neither can I get away from Him; for wherever I go or run to (no matter how far or how deep) in a bid to hide my shame from Him, His everlasting love is able to reach out and lovingly bring me back into His arms. It’s comforting to know that darkness is not a deterrent to Him; because His presence lights up all things, no matter how dark. Also comforting, is the knowledge that in this journey of life, it’s okay to stop and rest, I don’t need to make it all in one day! He goes before and behind me, and place His hand of blessing on my head; no wonder whatsoever I do, prospers. Another thing I absolutely can’t get over is how ‘wonderfully complex,’ He made me. His workmanship indeed is marvelous! Of this, I am sure. He formed each and every one of us thoughtfully and carefully and knew us even before we were born, so really there is no such thing as a ‘mistake of a child.’ To us as humans, it might be an unplanned pregnancy, but to God, it’s no surprise and even that child is part of His great plan. The earlier you see through the lies of the devil and realize that you are not worthless, the earlier you can start living out your great destiny as ordained by God even before you took your first breathe. It’s always so sweet to know that countless times in a day, God is thinking about me; this fact makes me blush so! That God so loves me and constantly has me on His mind. I feel so safe knowing that anyone that touches me, touches the apple of God’s eyes. My best part of this Scripture though, are the concluding verses; ‘’Search me, O God, and know my heart; test my thoughts. Point out anything you find in me that makes you sad, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.’’ Since I discovered this, I’ve made it my prayer ever so often because I have found out that truly, ‘the heart of man is deceitfully wicked, who can know it?’ And so I ask God to please search my heart, test my thoughts and vet my motives; that I may do things with a pure conscience and out of a good heart. And that if there is anything in me that makes Him sad or displeases Him, He should kindly point it out and engrace me to do away with it so that I may be on the right path to everlasting life. Because on my own, there is no way I can achieve this. We all need to make this our daily prayer, that way, we are assured that we are living as Christ wills for us to live. The world and all that is happening in it has found a way of getting into our hearts and infiltrating our thoughts and if we don’t intentionally access what we might have let in (sometimes, subconsciously), we will find that with time, we begin to have wrong thoughts which in turn translates to wrong beliefs and wrong patterns of behavior. We must therefore, honestly ask ourselves why we do what we do and take responsibility to change what needs to be changed. Someone once said, ‘A bad attitude is like a flat tire; you can’t go anywhere until you change it.’
May God help us be honest and diligent in the appraisal of ourselves, Amen.
If at the end of the day all you have is God, then you have more than enough.
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