i'm down in San Diego with the family, watching my little cousins as their mom has gone to the Philippines and their father is working this whole week... i get to spend some time down here and truly get away...
it feels good to just chill and hang out... sheesh! soo much better than the whole running around day in and day out... i just hope and pray that as i take time to chill and recollect my thoughts and mind-set, that i sit at the feet of my Father and truly enjoy my sabbath! my prayer for the week is the prayer of David in Psalm 18:23 "I was also blameless before Him, And I kept myself from my iniquity." I know the Father has given me every tool that i need to remain blameless before Him... keeping myself for not only ministry but my wife as well... to fathom the very truths that lie in the pages of the Bible... heeding the very words of David are all too educating... the massive attacks on his life, and yet he makes this declaration, 'I kept myself from my iniquity'? the same Spirit that resides in my life, was active in my Messiah's life many lifetimes ago... i have the power, through God, to stay pure in all things... temptation is good... it's my trial... some hear that and think, 'what are you talking about? isn't it bad to have temptation in one's life?' can i submit to you, No! falling for the temptation is sin. remember Jesus Himself was tempted, suffered, for me and for you. but what calms my heart, after repentance, is knowing... my sin keeps me in a place of humility! i do not ever want to be caught up in sin... i do not! but what i know is my God is a God of forgiveness, of long-suffering. and now, the ever falling, the ever desiring to be right with the Father brings about a kind of awareness to catch myself...
Back in Psalm 18:25 thru 26 "With the merciful You will show Yourself merciful; With a blameless man You will show Yourself blameless; With the pure You will show Yourself pure; And with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd." i am being made perfect in the Spirit. (Galatians 3:3) having said that, my life's desire is to show God in all these venues and conduits in my life... to be merciful, to be blameless, to resound purity and to know when i fall He shall be piercing to know my state and aggressive to see me broken! i'm His creation... i'm His workmanship... and i will continue to draw close to the Father, if He lets me... when He's done with me, i know then and only then will i be perfected...
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