Have you ever found yourself in a situation where something is troubling you and then you begin to dwell on it, meditate on it, almost to the case of worry? I sure have! I will tell myself that I will give the matter to God in prayer, yet never get around to doing the actual praying. Then all of a sudden you realize that God has already sent you the answers! Amazing how our God is!
When I was a child I used to think that my mother had eyes in the back of her head and hearing that could hear a pin drop a mile away. I am sure that I became a mother that my children made the same comments about me. I believe that mother’s do have this special gift because they are so in tune with the children and can know their needs before they even ask, at least some of them. In the same fashion a mother knows when their children are planning a rebellious act for the most part. Mother’s even know the story that is cooking up in your head before you even speak it! OK, kids, your mother is not magic and she certainly isn’t God. She has honed her skills from her own life experiences, but most of all a lot of her awareness comes from the deep love she has inside for her children. God’s love is like that, only on a grander scale. He does know what we are thinking; He is aware of our needs, even before we are; He catches us as we are falling if we reach out to him; He will even pick us up when we fall if we fail to reach out soon enough.
Today I received an answer to a prayer I didn’t think I prayed yet. I have been troubled by the fact that others avoid me because of my witness for Christ. (I do have a tendency to fret and be anxious, sometimes even depressed, by what others say about me – God is already helping me with this one too, but that is another story for another day.) I want people to like me and can’t understand why they won’t accept me the way I am. I am not hurting them by my strong belief in God; at least I don’t think so. I don’t even preach to them! I just try to live my life, one that is pleasing to the Lord, yet I seem to be in their way. I got up this morning and found a daily message in my email – I subscribe to several different devotional messages just to help keep me focused on the Lord. This particular message was written just for me! I believe that the Holy Spirit used it to speak to my heart and give me the answering I was seeking before I even asked. The message was from the “Life Application Daily Devotion”. You have got to check this one out!!
“Many people don’t want their lives exposed to God’s light because they are afraid of what will be revealed. They don’t want to be changed. Don’t be surprised when these same people are threatened by your desire to obey God and do what is right, because they are afraid that the light in you may expose some of the darkness in their lives. Rather than giving in to discouragement, keep praying that they will come to see how much better it is to live in light than in darkness.”
“And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.” John 3:19-21, NLT
Dear God, help me to see and to understand that it is not about me, it never was; it is about all You and that is what the world doesn't understand. Continue to break my heart for what breaks yours, Lord Jesus. Open my eyes that I might see..., show me how to love...
Hosanna
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