Wow, God is just so wonderful. Don’t you just love how He’s so faithful, how He keeps performing the work He’s begun in you?
I sat having coffee with my wife this morning. We sit out on our back patio for a few minutes each morning and watch for shooting stars before having our daily devotionals. I asked Ann to tell me some more details about how God is speaking to her heart and working in her life. What she told me was really a blessing and brought such peace to my own heart, mind and soul.
Here’s just one of the things Ann shared that was so soothing…
What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
2 Corinthians 6:16-18
We’d love to live away from the city with all of its noise, over-crowded feeling, impatience, busyness, etc. We think it would be so much more peaceful for us to live on some land “away from it all.” And, maybe one day, God will take us out of the city. Only He knows what He has for us.
We can’t come out from among them, physically. We need to work and live where God has put us. But, God is taking us out from among them right in the midst of them. He’s putting His life in us. He’s calming us down, giving us peace and creating His new life in us right where we are. That’s amazing. He’s teaching us His deep, abiding peace, rest, joy, self-control, gentleness, meekness, humility, faith, and love right where we are.
Yes, the world is full of chaos, pride, idolatry, anxiety, worry, confusion, and questions for tomorrow. It’s living with man’s ways. But, for anyone who will ask Jesus to change them, to ask Him to do a mighty spiritual work in their life, to help them to believe and to not fear, to have their storms stilled, He will change them and bring them His life, His healing, restorative ways, right where they are. That’s powerful. That’s our loving Heavenly Father.
Be still (Mark and Ann, put your own name here) and know that I am God.
Psalm 46:10a
And let the peace of God rule in your heart (Mark and Ann)…
Colossians 3:15a
At times, we really feel like we’re living in the rat race. But, God’s taking the rat race out of us and replacing it with Him, right here and now. Thank you, Jesus.
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you (Mark and Ann, your own name here) will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Philippians 1:6
And they (Mark and Ann, your name) will be My people. ☺
What wondrous love is this…
God bless,
Mark