GOD DELIGHTS

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

It is a crazy season, isn’t it?

Agendas.

People desperate for power.

Corruption.

Confusion.

Misplaced and mistimed words and actions.

Such a fight between BLUE and RED and all the while the “RED WHITE AND BLUE”, that NATION under GOD INDIVISIBLE is not so much.

I will be the first to say I am not deeply political.  My lens of life tends to focus below the political line.  Addicted folks have more to manage than party affiliation.  My denominator tends to fall a little lower most days.  Life and death often supersede Democrat or Republican ties.

But I stumbled onto a little devotional from Steven Scott recently and was re-introduced this this passage:

Jeremiah 9:23-24(NKJV)

Thus says the Lord:

“Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,

Let not the mighty man glory in his might,

Nor let the rich man glory in his riches;

But let him who glories glory in this,

That he understands and knows Me,

That I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.

For in these I delight,” says the Lord.

Go back and re-read it.

It gives some CLEAR instruction as to how we are to handle this season whether you are decked in blue or if you like the fella in the bright red tie.

We are not to get preoccupied with the wisdom of man.

We are not to be enamored or intimidated by their perceived power or in their wealth.

Rather our charge is a simple one.

We are to spend our time getting to know GOD better.  

Period.

Seek Him.  All the other stuff will “take care of itself”.

Mortals make elaborate plans, but God has the last word. – Proverbs 16:1 (MSG)

For when we know and seek Him we find HIS delight.

Simple interpreted, we are to remember that GOD is GOD.  

That’s it.

GOD will EXERCISE what GOD chooses to EXERCISE.

Be it:

Loving kindness.

Judgement and righteousness.

It’s up to Him and Him alone.

Our job in my opinion is to embrace that truth and to UNDERSTAND that.

Yet unfortunately…

“Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.” ― R.C. Sproul

Like I said, I am not a political guy, but with a week to go before we “seemingly bestow” power to the “next one in line”, let’s all take a step back and perhaps shift our focus.

Perhaps is to a good time to turn off FOX NEWS for a second or to give a break to Rachel Maddow and the other left-leaners and open our ears and heart to the WILL of GOD; to stop just saluting His sovereignty and TRUST it instead.  

We MORTALS do make all sorts of plans, but GOD indeed does have the last word friends.  Solomon uncovered that little nugget well before we needed to be “great again” or well before we could be “stronger together”.

Therefore, let’s just strive to know GOD better today.

For:

“When God is our Holy Father, sovereignty, holiness, omniscience, and immutability do not terrify us; they leave us full of awe and gratitude. - Zacharias

And it is in that, GOD delights.

  

I love you all

Be blessed today.

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