I GOT IT!

It has been several years in the making, but I got it. Well, I’ve had it for quite some time, but I am just now realizing I have it. I used to hope other church members would let me know how to get it, when would I get it and how I was doing in my pursuit of it. But now, I got it and I know it. Nobody could have told me I had it – nobody but God with time and experience to prove it. What is it? It is a relationship with God.
I mean more than salvation. I talking about a living, breathing, I talk to Him and He talks to me, relationship. I know He knows me, and I know that I’m seeking to know Him more and more. I know He hears me and I know I hear Him, I know he loves me and I know He knows I love Him.
This is not to say I don’t still make mistakes, but it’s there, the relationship is there – and it’s awesome!
I don’t look to the older sisters and brothers in the faith to “evaluate” me anymore. I thank God for that! Being relatively young and especially young in the Christian faith, I used to do that. And deep inside, I felt like a child trying to find its way, making mistakes as the older children looked on. It was embarrassing.
But something recently happened in my life and I saw how God had been working over the years to get me to this place and I realized He hears me and I hear Him. He loves me, and I love Him, we have a relationship.

For all the younger Christians out there, whether young in years or years in the faith, I want you to know that it may not come overnight, but it does come. Actually, it’s already there, but just like a relationship with a physical person, it takes time to realize the depth, the length and the height of it. Press on, it’s developing right under your nose.

Conversing with God

Where are we now Lord?
Where are we now?
I don’t recognize my surroundings
Am I where I should be?
“Yes, child Yes,” He yells back to me.
“You gave Me your trust now sit back and be free.”

Ok, ok, You’re right, yes You are.
You tell me this frequently
But I forget – how bizarre.
Flow in my life Lord, as free as you please.
Like a river of water, like wind through dry leaves.

“Speak dear child Speak! Say ‘Thus sayeth the Lord!’
Heed all my speakings, Hide the truth in your heart.
I will give you the words to write to My people
I will give you the words to speak to My people.
Trust Me and follow, I’ll make it that plain.
Hold Me to it, My word shall remain.

The 23rd Psalm

The Lord is my sheperd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil – for You are with me. Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You have prepared a table for me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.
Surely, goodness AND mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.
AMEN.

This is a psalm of David, but I too am a little lamb.

For us all

I went for a walk yesterday, just to exercise and talk to God. Everything was going so well until I said this, “Lord, there are some really good people in this world…” and before I could even really finish the thought, I was convicted immediately.
Repenting, I received this revelation.
The effects of sin are the effects of sin, but Jesus died for all of us. Even the Ted Bundy’s of the world. His word says,

“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 2Pe 3:9

How dare I judge and assume who is good and who isn’t. We are all God’s creations, created in His image, in His likeness.

This revelation helped me put a new perspective in how I see people. None of us is beyond His reach, and none of us should be counted out – EVER. Not even the people who, time and time again, do the unthinkable.

I thank God for that correction because it helps me to see people in terms of the love God has for them and not in the terms of my flawed vision.

In Everything, See God.

So, what was on that piece of paper I found in my purse? Well one afternoon, listening to Michael W. Smith’s album “Worship Again” the song “I See You” came on. As I listened, I received a revelation and here’s what I wrote:

“See God in everything you do, everywhere you go and in every situation you face. Not only in the flowers and the trees but also in the people you meet. His presence is where you are. Hedges of protection, ordered steps, prosperity in health and soul. ALL things working together for your good! “

How awesome is that!? It’s like that Purell commercial, where everything looks filthy but when looking through the bottle of Purell, everything was clean. How would our perspective change if in our everyday lives if we took the time to see God in everything? How much fear would be diminished, how much faith would we walk in? How much boldness?

Remember when Elisha told his servant,

“Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.” 2 Kings 6:16-17 KJV

Hezekiah told his army, “With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God.” 2Chronicles 32:8 KJV

Open our eyes Lord, that we may see Your favor, mercy, grace and loving-kindness towards us in everything – crowning us with Your glory!

Bless the Lord oh my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name!

“Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables…”

I can’t count the number of revelations, guidance and insights God has given me over the years. I can’t count them because honestly, I probably don’t remember half. And therein lies this quest.

While cleaning out my purse last week, I came across a piece of paper that I had written on. It was an awesome thought God shared with me to meditate on and I had forgotten all about it. I thought, how dare I treat His sharing with me so tritely! How many times had I let this happen? How many ideas and insights had I not grabbed hold of because I had forgotten them? And that’s when I realized how important it is that I take the time to write it.

As I was preparing to begin my blog, I sought God about what to write. (You know, sometimes God must really want so just say, “DUH!!”) But nevertheless, He reminded me of Habakkuk 2:2 and I had my answer.
“And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.”

So with that, I introduce the beginning of my blogging experience and the out-pouring of my personal “Moments in Meditation” with God.