Wednesday... So what is wonderful and beautiful to God?

Wednesday... So what is wonderful and beautiful to God? What is it?

The writer of Psalm 133 had a thought. In verse 1 (MSG) he says, "How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along!" So if that is wonderful and beautiful then let's do it? Oh I know, we won't agree on everything but we can disagree and still get along, can't we?

We are going through a difficult time of pandemic. Yes we are but there is a vaccine that we can take that will help. But we disagree about whether we should take it or not. And there is a vaccine for disagreeing in the right way. It's called God's love. It goes a long way at helping us to get along.

But I'm afraid that getting along is not too important for us today. It is more important for us to be right and to get what we want.

Psalm 106:6 says, "We've sinned a lot, both we and our parents; we've fallen short, hurt a lot of people. After our parents left Egypt, they took your wonders for granted, forgot your great and wonderful love." That sounds like us. He then says in verses 14 & 15, "They only cared about pleasing themselves in that desert, provoking God with their insistent demands. He gave them exactly what they asked for - but along with it they got an empty heart."

Oh God, may our desire be a heart filled with your love. That is the vaccine for this spiritual pandemic that we are seeing today.

Yes we can disagree but how we do it goes a long way at showing that God has made a difference in our heart and life. "How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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