Good morning, beloved,
It hit me like a ton of bricks that I was on a trajectory yesterday that I did not like. I’m just being honest. My thought and my emotions were on a roller coaster that was not going anywhere good. I had gotten a great case against everyone in my family. Joshua wasn’t being perfect. The kids were not being little angels. Imagine that. And then I began to hear what my brain was saying. Why can’t everyone be perfect like me? Seriously? Where was the fruit from studying? From listening to Kay? To studying Esther with the kids? Good grief. Yes, kids and all this can be yours for just 29.95! I was buying lies left and right.
And do you know what it took? A children’s program and some time listening to the Holy Spirit…A dear friend lent us a bunch of Adventures in Odyssey and you know how sometimes you hear Bible and say, Oh, yes, I know that and half tune it out..right? Come on, be honest. So I felt a prompting to stay with it.
Isaiah 6
5Then said I, Woe is me! For I am undone and ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!
6Then flew one of the seraphim [heavenly beings] to me, having a live coal in his hand which he had taken with tongs from off the altar;
7And with it he touched my mouth and said, Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity and guilt are taken away, and your sin is completely atoned for and forgiven.
8Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? And who will go for Us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
Friends, I really, truly feel God has called me to the mission field of my home! My surroundings. Wherever I go. When I shop. When I go to the library. When I go to the kids piano lessons. Wherever God takes me. Yet, when I allow my mind to be taken over my sinful thoughts and anger consumes me and self righteousness allows me to think things like..my child can’t do that. He needs to treat me…I am all up in my brain. There is no room for the Holy Spirit to remind me that my sin and my guilt are taken away. My sin is ATONED for and forgiven. Whatever my family is doing at that moment, really, my reaction is pretty much grounded in my rights . There is no room for Jesus leading me. What a precious thought that is!
Loch Lomond Sunset
No, this picture is not from my lake Lomond. This is Scotland. Yet, isn’t it lovely?
Paul, of course, has some things to add here in the verses of the day. Do not miss his words…
20So we are Christ’s ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ’s personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor [now offered you] and be reconciled to God.
21For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [[a]endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] therighteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness].
Oh, beloved, we have such treasures in our hands. We forget. We labor on our own so often and we don’t need to at all. Be reconciled to God. Be in a right relationship with Him. He is so good.
Pray on. Pray on…
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