I Am The Lord Your God (part 17)

When I use my free will to exalt my self, I am denying that God is supreme, when in reality, He is. (Is 49:6-23) All I have shall one day be dust, all I make is dross and desolate without my acknowledgement that God is at the helm and has been from the beginning of time. I don’t realize that I am going to be part of His mountain, the Holy Mountain, in which all can come and no longer be called Jew, Gentile, man, woman, slave or bond. When I come to that mountain, and realize that He has built it for all who believe Him and act on that belief, then I can truly live in peace. God sent His Son, so that I can be fed, and safe, and free. On the other hand, my living in peace is contingent upon me surrendering full power to Him, on entering the Sabbath rest, on acknowledging that the Sabbath rest just doesn’t mean a day of play for me but it means going before the throne, conversing with God, and resting in His arms. Kind of like climbing in Daddy’s lap. I used to climb in my dad’s lap. All children remember what that is like, and if they don’t they sure yearn to know what that feels like and they can know what that feels like with God. He is not some great ogre. He sees the walls I put up in my life out of fear or insecurity, He touches them, and the walls in an instant fall, and God replaces them with Himself as my protector. He sees injustice. He sees desolation. And none of it matters because He knows that I have a place of refuge here (the church) and later (heaven). And all anyone has to do is to trust Him, believe in Him. And if I truly believe, I will act accordingly. I will not try to take matters into my own hands, I will love and obey the Father. And God loved and loves me so much, He had all this planned out. He knew I couldn’t make it on my own, so He sent His Son. He even foretold about His Son in Isaiah 54:1-17. In fact, He wants to gather people from all nations and all walks of life, and all states of existence, the poor, the rich, the well, the sick, the free, the oppressed. And because He is God, He tells us to trust Him and that His reign is forever. In His Son He provides the mechanism by which I and others can come to Him. (Isaiah 55:1-13) I can recover from my life of sin and receive His mercy. And God looks to the poor, because He knows in one way or another all of us are poor, we just don’t realize it.