Satisfaction
Only God knows the way to my complete satisfaction.
God made my heart. He made me to need His leadership. That is why mankind is heading where it is...it doesn't realize it's need for a different leader.
I don't want to wish the world would find its way to different leader but not let myself be the start of that. That is hypocrisy... preaching one thing, but then making no effort to let that thing start with me.
God knows what I want. He put it there. There is no conscious me without a deliberate God taking stuff that wasn't alive and making it into a living me. He designed me with certain hungers that only He knows how to satisfy.
If I will trust Him and follow His leadership, He will satisfy my life. His leadership is different than mine. That is kind of the point. If I could do this without him, I'd already be fully satisfied. The fact is, I can't. The more I walk in God's leadership the more gratitude and satisfaction I find.
The more I see of God's love for me, and the beauty of my life laid down for him to resurrect, the more confident I get that following His strange and seemingly UNSATISFYING leadership is actually the correct way to go. Not because rules are rules, but because His boundaries are intended to keep me in the path I want, but don't know myself.
The fact that His leadership is contrary to my logic, yet it makes me feel vibrant, engaged and alive is evidence that He is God and I am not!
He cares more about the success of my heart than I do. He simply wants me to embrace my need of Him.
He says if I want my heart to be truly satisfied, then I should stop trying to satisfy myself, and let Him. That is the way life is simply designed to work.
I seek first the kingdom, which means His leadership over the part of creation I have authority over (me), and He will add the satisfaction ...all of it.
I am signing back up for waiting on the Lord, doing the simple things He shows me to do, letting my weak attempts to obey be enough, and letting God love me.
I have a vision to grow in obedience and satisfaction over time...letting Him lead me and provide all the strength...letting Him be God and me be His child.
Matthew 6:26“Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
27“Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;
29“and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30“Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32“For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
34“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Psalm 36:7How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings.
8They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house,
And You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures.
9For with You is the fountain of life;
In Your light we see light.
10Oh, continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You,
And Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
11Let not the foot of pride come against me,
And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.
12There the workers of iniquity have fallen;
They have been cast down and are not able to rise.
God made my heart. He made me to need His leadership. That is why mankind is heading where it is...it doesn't realize it's need for a different leader.
I don't want to wish the world would find its way to different leader but not let myself be the start of that. That is hypocrisy... preaching one thing, but then making no effort to let that thing start with me.
God knows what I want. He put it there. There is no conscious me without a deliberate God taking stuff that wasn't alive and making it into a living me. He designed me with certain hungers that only He knows how to satisfy.
If I will trust Him and follow His leadership, He will satisfy my life. His leadership is different than mine. That is kind of the point. If I could do this without him, I'd already be fully satisfied. The fact is, I can't. The more I walk in God's leadership the more gratitude and satisfaction I find.
The more I see of God's love for me, and the beauty of my life laid down for him to resurrect, the more confident I get that following His strange and seemingly UNSATISFYING leadership is actually the correct way to go. Not because rules are rules, but because His boundaries are intended to keep me in the path I want, but don't know myself.
The fact that His leadership is contrary to my logic, yet it makes me feel vibrant, engaged and alive is evidence that He is God and I am not!
He cares more about the success of my heart than I do. He simply wants me to embrace my need of Him.
He says if I want my heart to be truly satisfied, then I should stop trying to satisfy myself, and let Him. That is the way life is simply designed to work.
I seek first the kingdom, which means His leadership over the part of creation I have authority over (me), and He will add the satisfaction ...all of it.
I am signing back up for waiting on the Lord, doing the simple things He shows me to do, letting my weak attempts to obey be enough, and letting God love me.
I have a vision to grow in obedience and satisfaction over time...letting Him lead me and provide all the strength...letting Him be God and me be His child.
Matthew 6:26“Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
27“Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;
29“and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30“Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32“For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
34“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Psalm 36:7How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings.
8They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house,
And You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures.
9For with You is the fountain of life;
In Your light we see light.
10Oh, continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You,
And Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
11Let not the foot of pride come against me,
And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.
12There the workers of iniquity have fallen;
They have been cast down and are not able to rise.
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