After a quick breakfast, I left the hotel to be greeted by icy rain falling and strong gusts of wind. I walked toward a local park as the rain soaked through my clothes. I circled a running track while praying and worshiping God. Somehow the stormy weather spoke of God's majestic power.
The God who created the winds and rain, can still the storms in the heart. Peace be still! Even if the circumstance don't change or even get worse. Every storm, my beloved, will pass. What remains is what we learn in those stormy hours of God's character that remains.
There is another rain, when God pours out His abundant grace, to reign over every human passion, ambition and desire. My cry this morning is Lord reign over me. Over my known and hidden desires, let only your passion, your kingdom, your desires alone rule me.
While I'm learning to have confidence in God to hear my prayers and act according to what He has promised, I dare not trust in my requests alone. No matter how many tears, how prophetic or pathetic my words my sound. Beneath those seemingly good and noble requests, can be what James describes, "When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures." (4:3, NIV).
Despite the unpleasant biting wind and cold rain, simply to come before the Lord in worship brings Him pleasure because it comes from a heart that truly wants Him above all else in life. Nothing or no one will truly satisfy.
You can be certain, a holy desire that burns for the Lord is far better than fleshly lusts that corrupts the heart. Lust will bring a different reign, a cruel bondage, until you are utterly destroyed by it.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. (Hosea 10:12, KJV).
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