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

Thursday... Maybe we need this word today.

Psalm 57:1b (NIRV), "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Thursday... Maybe we need this word today. There are words in life that give us confidence no matter what we are facing. Now we have to believe them in order for them to have an impact. David wrote Psalm 57 while he was in a cave hiding from Saul who wanted to kill him and he says in the last part of verse 1, "There I will stay." It was a safe place and Saul didn't know that he was there. But he doesn't stop there. With confidence he said, "There I will stay until." And until is definitely a word of faith and confidence. "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Do we need that today? Let me give you the whole verse. In verse 1 David says, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." And that is a great place to start in times of trouble. Maybe that is what we need to pray today, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." It is so great to have someone...

Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." Tuesday... We just have trouble listening. Over in Jeremiah 25:4 (NLT) it says, "Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention." And Jeremiah went on to tell what was going to happen. There will be consequences if we do not listen to what God says through his Word. Now the Apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians was having a problem with some professed Christ followers who were having trouble at listening. And we too can have problems at listening. We can think that being a Christ follower means we do a lot of finger pointing and we give up on people who don't do what we say. We can even do that in our families. But Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." In verse ...

Friday... It is so exciting but wait a minute.

Proverbs 19:2 (NLT), "Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes." Friday... It is so exciting but wait a minute. This time of the year is so exciting. We get our paycheck from work and then we head to the store or Amazon and buy and buy and buy all those presents and then our check is gone Proverbs 19:2 (NLT) says, "Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes." But buying gifts can be so much fun and seeing how happy they are when opening those presents makes us feel so good. But then verse 3 says, "People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then they are angry at the Lord." Now for some that is their life. They get money and they spend it on their wants with no thought of what needs to be paid. An important lesson that we have learned is just because you have money in the bank doesn't mean you must spend it. But our enthusiasm takes over. But the problem is when it is gone and there is no money to pay th...

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