Monday... We can be one but not the other.

Monday... We can be one but not the other. We may want to be the other.

Psalm 113 shows two aspects of God. It shows Who He is and also what He does. We can never be Who God is but we can be the other. He wants us to be a part of the other, He wants us to be a doer.

Verses 5 & 6 (MSG) says, "God is higher than anything and anyone, outshining everything you can see in the skies. Who can compare with God, our God, so majestically enthroned, surveying his magnificent heaven and earth?" And the answer is no one. So many think they can but the answer still in no one. And the good thing is, we don't have to be. That is not who He created us to be. So set that desire aside. God is God and we aren't.

But look at the next verse. Verse 7 says, "He lifts the poor from the dust and the needy from the garbage dump." And He can use us to help do that. But the problem is we too many times think we are the other, we are high and mighty and look down on the one, the lifting of the poor and the needy but that isn't His plan.

Verses 7 & 8 in the Amplified Bible says, "He raises the poor out of the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap, that He may seat them with princes, with the princes of His people." He wants us to reach out so He can lift us and them up.

You see, we are the poor and needy and He wants us to help each other and He will work through us and lift us up to a place of honor.

So our task is not to be high and mighty and look down on others but to reach out and lift each other up so He can seat us with the princes. Now that is a great plan, isn't it? Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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Monday... He did it by Himself

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Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true.

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