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Monday... He is, so He can!


Psalm 115:3 (AMP), "But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases."

Monday... He is, so He can!

And it is so important for us to see that we can't because we aren't. Psalm 115:3 (AMP) reinforces that fact. It says, "But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases."


We are not God! And we really do need to realize that especially in our homes and in our relationships.

Yes, Psalm 115:3 (AMP) reinforces that fact. "But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases."

Now the Psalmist starts this Psalm in verse 1 (NLT) by saying, "Not to us, O Lord, not to us but to your name goes all the glory for your unfailing love and faithfulness." And there is where we need Him. He has unfailing love and He is faithful and that isn't true of us, if we don't have Him in our life, living through us the way He would live and expects us to live through His help and His example.

Have you found that it is so easy to become so petty? That is where divorces start in so many marriages. We forget that we are not God and we think that we can do whatever we please and we expect our mate to let us. Yes, we must reinforce in our mind and heart and actions these verses here in the beginning of Psalm 115, "Not to us, O Lord, not to us but to your name goes all the glory for your unfailing love and faithfulness." and "But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases."

The Message says verse 1 this way, "Not for our sake, GOD, no, not for our sake, show your glory. Do it on account of your merciful love, do it on account of your faithful ways." And then verse 3, "Our God is in heaven doing whatever he wants to do." And that is what He wants to do and does do. And He also wants to do it in and through us.

Now the fact that He is merciful in his love then we know that in His doing whatever he wants, it goes through that merciful love. And there is not a whole lot of merciful love in many of our homes and without that there is a lot of judgment and fights. "Not to us, O Lord, not to us but to your name goes all the glory for your unfailing love and faithfulness."

Now we can ask the Lord to come into our heart, into our life and fill us with that merciful, authentic love and then get the I am God out of our actions and our family. Yes, we need leaders in our homes but not leaders who think they are God. There is only one God and it is not us so we can't do whatever we want but we can do what He wants. Yes we can be people with God living in us and showing His merciful authentic love and being faithful at having God live through us.

This self-centeredness does not work but a life of merciful love does and it comes from God living in and through us and a whole lot of I was wrong, please forgive me and forgiveness. That is merciful love. And being faithful in it.

So let's serve the One who is the only God and have Him live through us. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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