At His Feet

11/5/2020

11/5/2020: Psalm 4-5
Tremble with fear, and stop sinning. Think about this when you go to bed, and calm down. Selah. Give the right sacrifices to the Lord, and put your trust in Him! Many people say, "I wish I could enjoy the good life. Lord, give us some of those blessings." But you have made me happier than they will ever be with all their wine and grain. When I go to bed, I sleep in peace, because, Lord, you keep me safe.

Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idoltry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

What I see from these scriptures is that living against God is wrong and it does not bring us the blessed like we want. I remember that before I came to Christ, I thought I had everything. I was living in the reveley of sin and it was always, more, more, but I wasn't happy. I looked like I enjoyed myself but each night, when the pleasure had to be put on pause and the distractions ran away, I was left with myself and it was a very lonely place. There just wasn't any peace in me and I knew that but I didn't want to admit it or face it. Then I got sick and there was really no telling what was wrong with me. In the end, my mom had to spend the night with me, to take me early to the hospital for my appointment and I remember that every time we talked, every time I say her, she glowed. There's really no other way to explain it except glowing like a soft light...and the peace she had made me jealous. She had nothing compared to my dad and my family but she was the one who had more. She had peace and it overflowed over everything.

It's because she had God and sought Him over everything. Her life showed what went on inside her and God's hand really is on her - back then and to this day.

People like my mother have true life. They don't live to please their flesh - they don't go around practicing the things the world does. They seek after God and His kingdom and when God changes the heart, our outside naturally follows. Once we are changed, there's no going back to the old ways. We slip up, but we can't purposely look back to our old life and long for it.

There should be no more sinning. What I mean is this: Seek God and try our best to please Him more than our flesh. If we slip, we have God's grace to get back up and ask for forgiveness, but we should not purposely seek to live like the world. It's time to grow up and that's for all of us.

Prayer: Father God, thank You for this message. Please help us to grow up in You. Help me and my siblings to put aside the things that keeping us from experiencing You and the peace You want to give to us, Your children. We can't change by ourselves - please change our heart and mold it to Your will, not ours. In Jesus holy and blessed name, amen.