Good Morning All!
Lamentations
3:24; “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, therefore I will hope in
him.”
We have become a society that wants everything
in a “one stop has it all” lifestyle. We
want to get our car serviced while we get our teeth checked and our kids get
their eyes tested. When we get done,
we’ll get groceries and take supper home; all under one roof. We have come to demand this type of
service. We expect our every want to be
satisfied and quickly.
We do the same with God. Oh, we may pray to God, we may bring our
petitions to him but is it prayer or a shopping list. You know the prayer. “Dear God, fix my kids, straighten out my
spouse, do something about my boss and that co-worker, give me a pay raise,
give me patience and give it to me now.”
Too often, we think this is a prayer.
We view God as our celestial Wal-Mart ready to deliver all our wants and
now.
The thing we miss is that this type of
prayer; actually, this type of life; misses God’s promised blessings in our
life. This type of “demand prayer”
leaves us empty, wallowing in a muddy shallow of selfishness and hollow
discontentment. When we take this attitude;
we rob our lives of some of God’s greatest blessings. We blur the line between God’s plan for our
life and our desire for our life. We
tell God want we demand and how we demand it and then expect Him to intervene
on our behalf on our timeline. All the
while we are stressed and distressed because things aren’t going to our plan.
We fail to see that it is not God’s
presents that matter it is his presence.
God lives actively in our lives offering to us a true hope. Too often we get caught up in our consumer
society and miss God’s love.
Our verse tells us that the Lord is my
portion. It doesn’t say part of my
portion but the whole portion. We are
distracted cravers when we expect our people, places, and things to fill our
hearts as only God can. God loves us so much. Why do we forget this all the
time? His plan is perfect, and we can trust Him. He knows our needs and
desires. When we seek Him as the answer instead of for the
answer, God enables us to rest in confidence that He's working on our behalf
and in our best interest, to bring glory to Himself through our lives.
Let us remember that God is our
portion. He is the only one who can fill
our heart with true hope, true comfort, and true peace. So, let’s set our lists, our demands aside
and seek God, seek his love, seek his peace.
When we finally let go of our goals and cling to his promise by faith
will we have true happiness. Remember
his mercies. Relish in his love and
receive his portion as your fullness.
Dearest Father, your
mercy is new to us every day. Too often
we seek our own goals and desires and place our wants ahead of your grace. Forgive us when we do so. Give us strength to live our lives with you
as our portion, with you as our wholeness.
In Jesus’ precious name we pray.
Amen
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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