A Broken...and Contrite Heart?

"You break me down, Lord" Isaiah 66:2"This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word"...the word 'contrite' used here, literally means..."lame or disabled"...one who is aware of the damage brought on by his sin...and his personal inability to stand upright before God.” (Motyer)
Do I 'tremble' at God's Word? Or how about, do I tremble at the thought of standing before Our Perfect and Holy God, and hope to somehow say..."can you please overlook everything I've done, and let me in, cause really down deep, I'm a pretty fantastic person....I mean, why else would you love me?" Nope, what God really wants from us is a poor and a contrite spirit, and to tremble at His word...hmmmm?

Ok Job...I get your point

"food, for the 'spiritual' man?" Job 23:12 "I have not departed from his commands, but have treasured his words more than daily food" How much value do I put on the Word of God? Job says he's come to value Our Lord's Words, even more than the food he considers to live on..."what's up with that?...I wanna be like Job!" First off...you see there is the natural man, than there is the spiritual man. Trust me, I see to it that my natural man is fed regularly and fed well...but what about my spiritual man? I confess, it's amazing how much junk food I cram into my spiritual man..."Lord, help me!"

Sometimes, when I stop and think about it....

"He has made me glad"..."Psalm 92:4 "You thrill me, LORD, with all you have done for me! I sing for joy because of what you have done" (NLT) Too often, I allow my circumstances to run me, and forget some pretty important things My God has done for me...like atonement for my sins..."Thank You Jesus!" Since sin is forgiven, can it matter what happens to you now? Come join me Christian, cling to that cross which took our sin away; serve Him who served thee.

I Could Never be a Judas

"me, could I have been a Judas?" Luke 22:48 but Jesus asked him, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?" I am Judas’ kiss But You love me anyway...See now, I am the man who yelled out from the crowd For Your blood to be spilled on this earth shaking ground Yes then, I turned away with a smile on my face With this sin in my heart tried to bury Your grace And then alone in the night, I still called out for You So ashamed of my life, my life, my life Oh, God…how you love me (Sidewalk Prophets)

Stop Focusing on my circumstances?

"keep our eyes on?...." Matthew 14:28 "Lord, if it's you," Peter replied, "tell me to come to you on the water" Circumstances, you know as well as I do, its real easy for us to to get our eyes on our circumstances...we start looking around at the boisterous waves; we start looking at our problems...next thing ya know, we begin to sink...We need to keep our eyes on the Lord, the Master over the sea, over the waves, over the winds...It's been said: "As long as we keep our eyes on Jesus we can walk on the water, so to speak"             Help Me Lord!

Now that I'm Older

"uh when I grow up...I wanna die on a cross?" john 21:18 "I tell you the truth, when you were young, you were able to do as you liked; But when you are old, others will dress you and take you where you don't want to go" When Peter and Jesus first met, Peter was all about self-reliance...Here, Jesus promises Peter, when you are older, you will make a faithful stand for Me and be crucified. It's all about the cross. You can't help but do it...you look back over your life, and think...."I used to really think that was important, or this was important, but now?" God has this funny way of changing us...He does slowly, maticulously...what used to reign as so important, suddenly is not even worth thinking on...instead we mature...at least I hope, and in more cases than not, we become "kingdom minded"....like Peter, we focus our attention on finishing well.

For He is not far from any of you

"where can I go? He's like...everywhere" Acts 17:28 "For in him we live and move and exist" In all honesty...I am totally surrounded by God. I depend upon God for my very existence. In Him I live. God sustains my life. I'm dependent on Him. I move, wherever I move, He is there. I exist in Him, by Him.