Embrace the Within no. 110

"If we live a life of prayer, God is present everywhere."

Oliver Holden

God wants us to be better, however, all too often we choose to be the same. And that is why prayer is important. I need to keep God near and dear to me throughout my days and nights. I need to know His voice in a world full of distractions and destructions. And it is far too easy to start making my own covenants and my own concessions and my own path rather than trusting in His Word and His Way.

And we can see it all around us. So many folks have wrong or no doctrine. So many heathens are out there digging up dead rituals and worshipping dead idols. So many folks are doctrinally wrong because of a spiritual illiteracy that leads them to read the Bible for justification rather than instruction. BUT studying His Word and listening to His voice are the only cures for our own ego getting in the way of His Way.

And He answered, My presence shall go with thee, and I will giue thee rest.

Exodus 33:14 GNV

The great promise of God is that I do follow His Way, then He will be with me. I can rest in His peace. If I am struggling against God, there will be no lasting peace.

My pride will always cause me to believe that I have better answers than God when that is never the case. I need to know God well. And that only comes from spending time with Him and building a relationship with Him. I can’t get there on my own. I need to do as He wills and not as I will. And that means a lot more time learning about Him and a lot less time doing what the world wants.

But the Scripture offereth more grace, and therefore sayth, God resisteth the proude, and giueth grace to the humble. Submit your selues to God: resist the deuill, and he will flee from you. Drawe neere to God, and he will drawe neere to you. Clense your handes, ye sinners, and purge your hearts, ye double minded. Suffer afflictions, and sorrowe ye, and weepe: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your ioy into heauinesse. Cast downe your selues before the Lord, and he will lift you vp.

James 4:6-10 GNV

If we seek the Lord, we will find Him. And even if we don’t seek Him, we will still see Him there. We only need to start taking the steps to live in His Way to truly enjoy all the grace and abundance He has to offer. I need to want Him as much as He wants me.

“Throughout the history of humanity, there have been great discoveries. I am not sure which one we could point to and say, ‘That is the greatest discovery in the world.’ But for the hungry heart, there is but one discovery that satisfies it: the discovery of the manifest, conscious presence of God.”

James L. Snyder

Grace and Shalom this week. Shalom to your home. Bless your being. The reign of the Lord is now. Be a blessing to the Lord and others.

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