Reading: James 4
My Verse: "Or do you suppose that the Scripture is speaking to no purpose that says, The Spirit Whom He has caused to dwell in us yearns over us and He yearns for the Spirit [to be welcome] with a jealous love?" (4:5)
What a poignant thought - my Lord God yearning for me! It is almost too great for me to think on.
Dear, Lord, that You love me in a most personal way is a fact I so often miss or forget. Because I get caught up in the immediacy of my daily life You become distant to me. But You are ever there, ever yearning after me.
You long for me to turn my eyes upon You as I go about my day. "You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind is stayed on You, . . ." (Isaiah 26:3). You long for me to rest in Your loving arms. "Come to Me, all you who are labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest" (Matthew 11:28).
Lord, I think of the Shulamite maiden in the Song of Solomon when she questions her own love for her shepherd. "Tell me, O You Whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon. For why should I be as a veiled one straying beside the flocks of your companions?" (1:7) Do I truly love You, Lord God, with all my heart in spirit and in truth? Does my spirit crave You even in the presence of all that this world offers me?
Am I always aware of Your divine presence? You are omnipresent. This I know. You are ever loving. That, too, I know. But, dear Lord God, I cannot say I am always aware of Your ever present yearning for me. It is so personal. so intimate.
Again I think of You walking and talking with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Somehow this picture shows me Your personal love and caring for us, Your created beings. It shows You as a real, loving, personal God. I cannot comprehend the heartbreak You knew when they chose to be disobedient. Neither can I fully comprehend the love -personal intimate love You have for me. I can only pray, Lord God, that You will bless me, that You will continue to draw me to You, that You will continually open and enlarge my understanding of Your yearning love.
"And I will give you [spiritual] shepherds after My own heart [in the final time], who will feed you with knowledge and understanding and judgement" (Jeremiah 3:15).
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
My Verse: "Or do you suppose that the Scripture is speaking to no purpose that says, The Spirit Whom He has caused to dwell in us yearns over us and He yearns for the Spirit [to be welcome] with a jealous love?" (4:5)
What a poignant thought - my Lord God yearning for me! It is almost too great for me to think on.
Dear, Lord, that You love me in a most personal way is a fact I so often miss or forget. Because I get caught up in the immediacy of my daily life You become distant to me. But You are ever there, ever yearning after me.
You long for me to turn my eyes upon You as I go about my day. "You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind is stayed on You, . . ." (Isaiah 26:3). You long for me to rest in Your loving arms. "Come to Me, all you who are labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest" (Matthew 11:28).
Lord, I think of the Shulamite maiden in the Song of Solomon when she questions her own love for her shepherd. "Tell me, O You Whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon. For why should I be as a veiled one straying beside the flocks of your companions?" (1:7) Do I truly love You, Lord God, with all my heart in spirit and in truth? Does my spirit crave You even in the presence of all that this world offers me?
Am I always aware of Your divine presence? You are omnipresent. This I know. You are ever loving. That, too, I know. But, dear Lord God, I cannot say I am always aware of Your ever present yearning for me. It is so personal. so intimate.
Again I think of You walking and talking with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Somehow this picture shows me Your personal love and caring for us, Your created beings. It shows You as a real, loving, personal God. I cannot comprehend the heartbreak You knew when they chose to be disobedient. Neither can I fully comprehend the love -personal intimate love You have for me. I can only pray, Lord God, that You will bless me, that You will continue to draw me to You, that You will continually open and enlarge my understanding of Your yearning love.
"And I will give you [spiritual] shepherds after My own heart [in the final time], who will feed you with knowledge and understanding and judgement" (Jeremiah 3:15).
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
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