Wednesday, 17 June 2009

• Sleeping In

  I just wanted to say really quick that God has been just too good to me lately in providing for me.  I love many chapters in the Bible, but whenever I go through a difficult time, I seem to gravitate towards a lot of the same verses.  The one I have stuck to a lot this time (but this isn't the first time) is Psalm 37.  Different verses speak to me at different times.

  Many years ago, I understood the "Delight yourself" verse to mean not that God will grant you whatever you want, but that he will grant you with the desires to want what he wants.  Like, I feel like he makes us want something and then we get it and are content. When I am right with him, I pray for this and he comes through.  Every time.  Just sometimes, I give up before he is ready to do the "big reveal."  Maybe that is why he included verse 7--which says "Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him."  I looked this verse up in another version which said "Rest in the Lord..."

  A few weeks ago, I heard that verse and was thinking--Is that what God is saying to me now?  Is that really what he wants or am I just thinking that?  But then I realized that if the Lord says it--He wants it all the time.  You don't ask if you should be still now, because he says--Be still--he wants you to do that all the time.  Be still and wait to see what desires he grants you and be still and let him take care of it.  Rest in him and have peace (Phil. 4:6-7).

  Ahh, thank you Lord.

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