Monday... You really do know us.

Psalm 139:3b (AMP), "And you are intimately acquainted with all my ways."

Monday... You really do know us.

Psalm 139:3b (AMP) says, "And you are intimately acquainted with all my ways."

I'm not sure why this jumped out at me this morning but it did. Relationships are so very important for us. We each one need people in our lives, who really know us and accept us. We don't need a lot of friends but we need a few.

Proverbs 18:24 (AMP) says, "The man of too many friends [chosen indiscriminately} will be broken in pieces and come to ruin, but there is a [true, loving] friend who [is reliable and] sticks closer than a brother."

That really is important for us to know. Again Psalm 139:3b (AMP) says, "And you are intimately acquainted with all my ways."

Now verse 1 (NLT) says, "O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me."

Margaret, my wife definitely knows me better than anyone else and she has stayed with me for over 51 years. But she doesn't know me like God does.

Here's why. Verses 13-14 says, "You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous - how well I know it."

Now that complex part can be difficult for some to accept and for us to share with others. But real love accepts. Verse 1 of Psalm 139 (NLT) shows where God is different. It says, "O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me." He really does know us.

Verses 1-3 in the Amplified Bible goes on to say, "O LORD, you have searched me [thoroughly] and have known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up [my entire life, everything I do]; You understand my thoughts from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and You are intimately acquainted with all my ways."

Now some get to the place that they think they really do know a person and they strive to change them. They feel that they need to change their complexity but God really is the only one who can do that. Oh I am really different now than what I was 51 years ago. Margaret's love and acceptance of my complexity has made a difference in me in so many ways. But really God is the only one who can make a difference in us because He made us and our complexities. He knows more about us and He is the one we go to for real change. You see He is the only one who is intimately acquainted with all my ways and who can examine our heart and who made us so wonderfully complex.

And that is why we need to pray this prayer to our LORD. Verses 23-24 (NLT) says, "Search me O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious life. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life."

There is so much about our friends, our mates, our kids that we need to give over to God and quit trying to change. Oh we do have a part to play in their change but it is only through God's guidance because He is the only one who really knows the why He made us the way we are and who really knows our heart and where the real change needs to be made.

Yes, God, "you are intimately acquainted with all my ways." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

Monday... He did it by Himself

Isaiah 44:24b (AMP), "I am the Lord, Maker of all things. Who alone stretches out the heavens, Who spreads out the earth by Myself." Monday... He did it by Himself. Many have a tendency to think very highly of themselves and what they can do. Oh we do have great ability but we are not the source. Yes it is important to have self-confidence but we are limited. The prophet Isaiah in 44:9-10 (NLT) says, "How foolish are those who manufacture idols. These prized objects are really worthless. The people who worship idols don't know this, so they are all put to shame. Who but a fool would make his own god - an idol that cannot help him one bit?" Now later in verse 24 (AMP) he writes, "For the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb says, 'I am the Lord, Maker of all things, Who alone stretches out the heavens, Who spreads out the earth by Myself.'" I love that. "By Myself." Now we do need confidence but we are foolish to ma...

Friday... We have this hope of expectancy.

Psalm 5:3 (NLT), "Listen to my voice in the morning Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly." Friday... We have this hope of expectancy. Now David found a great way to start his day. He says in Psalm 5:1-3 (NLT), "O LORD, hear me as I pray." And that is a great place to start. It really is. Morning sunrise He goes on, "Listen to my cry for help, my King, my God, for I pray to no one but you." And that is so important. We don't try to pump ourselves up by ourself. No, we pray to no one but you, God, my LORD, my King. Now this relationship with God is so, so very important. And then David says, "Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you" And that is so great. And then he says, "and wait expectantly." Yes, we have this hope of expectancy. We are experienced. That is what a relationship with God and a moment by moment connection does. It makes a difference in our daily wa...

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

Psalm 12:6 (NLT), "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true. Maybe this is what you want to say in this day in which we live. Psalm 12:1-2 (MSG) says, "Quick, I need your helping hand! The last decent person just went down, all the friends I depend on gone. Everyone talks in lie language; lies slide off their oily lips. They doubletalk with forked tongues." Do you ever feel that way?" Have you found that to be true? Well David the writer of this Psalm continues and says in verse 6 something to encourage us, to lift us up, to give us hope. Psalm 12:6 (NLT) says, "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." The Message Paraphrase says verses 6-8 this way, "God's words are pure words, pure silver words refined seven times in the fires of his word-kiln, pure on earth as well as in heaven, God, keep ...

Today's Beginning

Search This Blog