My Prayer for today is for deliverance from what grabs my soul that is not right and good and just. I've been more concerned about my body healing than my soul healing.
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Thursday, January 2, 2025
2 - "The Morning Stars Still Sing" Genesis 4-6; Matthew 2
Ask yourself why you are angry, what's really going on with your responses? Why is your face sad? Genesis 4:6-7. What's going on within? #60000thoughts #talkingtomyself
I taught my preschool kids Genesis 4:6-7 because the verse before it says: "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?" I wanted them to learn to deal with their own hearts and not everybody else's, especially siblings. But, it's for me on so many mornings. I'm waiting out a call from my oncologist plus waiting out a very long recovery from a freak fall. Still having awful spasms in my back from the spill. But more than what is happening physically, I need to look at my own heart, deal with my own stuff. And as I do ... Things aren't as they appear. And a tear falls. I'm just not where I thought I would be in life or in soul or story or in friends. So, I'll keep walking in that darkness, trusting, no light. And I'll keep asking the same question the 3 Wise Men asked in Matthew 2---where is He? The North Star brought them to the Savior in a Manger. The North Star sang. The Morning Stars still sing. Job 38:7---from that First Day of Creation to this very day.
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It is such a comfort to me today to see Abraham's humanity. He obeys God by leaving his country and then, out of fear, he lies to the Egyptians about Sarai. Huge victory, huge defeat.
ReplyDeleteYet Abraham was chosen by God to receive an exceedingly great reward. It wasn't about Abraham being perfect but about God wanting to display His glory through the relationship with Abraham and his descendants. God gave Abraham the faith to believe Him and then God counted him as righteous because of his faith. God did it all!
I needed to hear this story this morning. I get so discouraged with my own failure to love well and to serve my family selflessly. It's not about my perfect performance. It's about what Christ has already done for me on the cross so that, by faith, I can walk in freedom and newness of life. It's ridiculously easy for me to fall back into a performance mentality in my walk with the Lord.
I hear your words, Cici and can relate. I have struggled with "perfect" personality issues all my life. Not that I think I am perfect, I just want everything to be perfect.
ReplyDeleteHow opposite that is from the Biblical example, though. Everyone God picked (except Mary and Jesus) sinned in a big way. That is the beauty of the Word. Imperfect people in an imperfect world...struggling, stumbling, falling, getting up, falling again until finally we realize we just can't do it without divine guidance.
I am finally ready to let go,and let God guide me.
I think the thing about Abraham that moves me is that he knew the big picture of God's plan for him, and when he thought it wasn't happening the way he thought it should, he took it into his own hands. He was afraid. He was impulsive. And he didn't trust God to take care of it.
ReplyDeleteThink of all the examples God could have recorded for us--stories about Abraham's faith, yet he tells us about something he did wrong. Our good God knows us well, and tells us we're going to mess up. But the story gives Him the opportunity to remind us that He'll still be there with open Arms. Faithful He is to restore, to re-hinge the brokenness.
Look up at the stars tonight and remember God's faithfulness. Our own story is about a big God and a beautiful, vast redemption. Faithful and True is His Name forever from Genesis to Revelation, beginning to end.
Hi Annette! This is Holly, posting as Bev, and I am testing the embedded comments! Hope it works! Love to all!!
DeleteLove the embedded comments, Holly! Thanks for the update on the blog!
ReplyDeleteSuch of an example of faith - Abraham picked up and moved to a strange land and then an example of his human frailty - he lied. Like us, he had extreme highs and lows in his walk with God.
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ReplyDeleteHere's a dumb question from your girlfriend in Michigan. Um... How does it work regarding praying the Psalms? I would like to join you if I can figure it out. ;)
Much Love to you all,
Angie
Hey Angie, Sitting next to Annette watching the Cotton Bowl!!! Wish you were here with us! Since the Psalms are prayers, I had this idea that I would post a verse from Psalms every day that went along with the reading. Just a thought to pray back to God as you go through your day. So good to hear from you!
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