How often
do we worry our self sick over some issue in our life? We fret and plot and
plan, trying to come up with a way to prevent some real or imagined impending
doom.
Jesus
advises that we take no thought for tomorrow (Luke 12:22). He tells us to ask,
seek and knock, and He will provide our needs (Matthew 7:6-9).
He reminds
us to pray in the Spirit as we make our requests to Him (Ephesians 6:28). Effectual
prayers are persevering and bathed in gratitude for all that God already did for
us (Colossians 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18).
We are
confident that He not only started His work in our life, but He will also
finish it (Philippians 1:6). We live a surrendered life for the praise of His
glory, and He sanctifies us in stages (Ephesians 1:12; 2 Corinthians 3:18).
We are not
occupied with this world and the desires of our flesh. Instead, we dwell in the
Temple of our God and enter His presence through the outer court of Salvation,
and minister to Him in the Holy Place (Psalm 135:2; Revelation 3:12).
However,
there is one step further in our intimacy with God. We encounter the glorious
presence of God in the Holy of Holies (Hebrews 9:3). Everything pertaining to
life in this world is absent from this cherished place of abiding.
We dwell
in this holy chamber, within our spirit (1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19). We never
leave God's presence as we walk in the Spirit and do only those works, which
God calls us to perform (Ephesians 2:10).
Prayer:
Father
God, although we have lost yesterday, never to get it back again, You have not
lost it, because You are not limited by time as we are. We look forward to all
of our tomorrows as we walk in Your Spirit and put aside the lusts of the flesh
(Galatians 5:15-25).
We trust in Your faithfulness to work out all things for
our good (Romans 8:28). Our most meaningful
and intimate times of worship will not be the dark days of trial and
tribulation; but our times of loving fellowship with You alone, in the Holy of
Holies within us.
Once we surrender our life to You, You keep our heart from
breaking and we never feel lonely or abandoned again, regardless of whatever
experiences we encounter in this temporal life.
Thought
for the Day:
We want
nothing more from life than to dwell in the shelter of the Most High, and to
rest under the shadow of the Almighty. - Psalm 91:1
