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Wednesday... There are so many in our life.


Wednesday... There are so many in our life. There really are.

But the writer of Psalm 100:3 (NLT) says, "Acknowledge that the Lord is God!" 

Yes there are many lords in our life. So many different lords that seem to want to control our lives, that we look to to bring us what we want and they want. 


When we are striving to make a decision there are so many lords, so many voices inside of us that are saying, "Do this, do this" but we need to stop and listen to and "Acknowledge that the Lord is God!" You notice that this Lord is a capital Lord and that the sentence ends with an exclamation point. All those others clamoring for control and attention are not capitalized and do not have an exclamation point. And that is so important to acknowledge. It really is.

Here is what the whole verse says, "Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture."

Now there is another portion of scripture that emphasizes that we are his people. Over in John 17, it starts in verse 1 by saying "Jesus looked up to heaven and said." This chapter is a prayer of Jesus, God's Son. He shows as an example for us that he too acknowledged that the Lord is God and that his humanness needed to connect with God who was his father. 

He says in verses 11-12, "Now I am departing from the world; they are staying in this world, but I am coming to you. Holy Father, you have given me your name, now protect them by the power of your name so that they will be untied just as we are. During my time here, I protected them by the power of the name you gave me. I guarded them so that not one was lost, except the one headed for destruction, as the Scripture foretold." 

Yes the Lord is God who is our Holy Father and he wants to protect us as our Lord who is God but we have a choice. We can serve all the other lords in our life but they do now have the power that he does and they didn't make us and we are not their sheep. Notice that as we put our trust in the Holy God he will protect us and in turn take care of us. 

Jesus then prays in verses 25 & 26, "O righteous Father, the world doesn't know you sent me. I have revealed you to them, and I will continue to do so. Then your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them."

As we acknowledge that God is our Lord and we accept Jesus into our heart, he will be one of those voices that want to direct us and guide but his voice is the still small one. We have to focus to hear it but he is there.

Yes, there are so many voices but he is the only Lord who made us and who loves us so much that he sent his son to die for us. So let's, "Acknowledge that the Lord is God!" Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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