What Matters To God? (3)
Wednesday April 19, 2017
Through all previous generations even to the generation alive today, people have lived in an environment where good and evil are muddled. God intended humans to have security and love in their relationships. However, each of us have known experiences of broken trust and abandonment. The love that was rightfully ours in God’s creation was confused when the knowledge of evil came and brought fear of God rather than the security within His embrace. Fear makes us look somewhere, other than God, for love and that’s why we end up lost and suffering in all the wrong places.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8 NLT)
To find and experience the fulfilling life God has for us we need to begin where the breakdown began. We must return to the God who made us in love, and who designed us to live within the knowledge of being loved by Him. We come before God and ask Him to reveal to us those areas where we are living in fear and brokenness, rather than trusting in His unfailing love.
If we ask, God will help us sort our issues. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. (Psalm 139:23-24 NLT)
Our part is to simply admit we are broken and in need of fixing. God’s part is to purify us from everything that isn’t right within us. But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. (1 John 1:9 NLT)
Prayer: Heavenly Father, we are not smart enough to chart our own course. We humbly come before you and ask for Your mercy. Please cleanse and heal us and set us on the path to a rich and satisfying life. Amen
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