Jesus spent hours communing with our Father, and He never did anything that He did not first see our Father doing (John 5:19-30). Those who saw Jesus also saw our Father, and Jesus prayed that we too would enjoy this same union with the Trinity of God within us so we may also be one with them (John 17:21-23).
Uncluttering our life starts with adopting His plan in place of our plans. Making God’s plans for us as our singular focus through each moment of every day, communicating and listening to Him in prayer without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:16-28), and prioritizing our daily schedule around His perfect peace within us guarantees our fulfilled life (Philippians 4:7-9).
During our years of walking with the Lord, His Spirit changes us from one stage of spiritual maturity to the next (2 Corinthians 3:18). We learn to consult Him for His purposes for our life rather than walking according to our human understanding (Proverbs 3:5-6).
God encouraged Joshua with words that also soothe our life. He instructs us not to focus on our terrifying circumstances, which will only discourage us, but to remember that He is the Lord in it all. He is with us and in us everywhere we go, through everything we do, and He anoints us to accomplish the work He ordained for us to do before we were ever born (Joshua 1:9; Ephesians 2:10).
God’s peace leads us, His grace increases in us, His love flows over us like a waterfall, and His joy bubbles up from within us. Our faith develops into an intimate union with His presence within us as we see His faithfulness to us. Jesus learned obedience through the things He suffered during His lifetime, and we do too (Hebrews 5:8-14).
God’s Spirit disturbs our peace when we stray from His protective narrow road and veer onto the wide road to destruction. However, walking in His will brings order to the chaos that threatens to overwhelm us, healing from the pain that wearies us, and joy that fills our cup to overflowing.
Prayer:
Father God, thank You for redeeming us and for calling us by name to come to You. We rejoice in the fact that as authentic Believers, we belong to You and that You are with us through every traumatic experience we face in our lifetime (Isaiah 443:1-3). Your faithfulness is higher than the mountains and reaches to the sky (Psalm 36:5, 108:4).
Remind us that Your love eradicates fear from our life (1 John 4:18-20). We have no need to focus on possible failure, humiliation, pressure from expectations, disaster, or pain and suffering, but to realize that Your presence in our life keeps us in perfect peace as we focus on You (Isaiah 26:3-4). You are our Savior, our Lord, our Provider, our Sanctifier, and our soon coming King.
Thought for the Day:
Waiting on the Lord requires patience all the time; and, sometimes, it also requires giving up our desired endeavor for sitting quietly and waiting on Him while we listen for God's will for this moment of time in which we are living; we learn to know the will of God for us because it becomes evident by the peace of God that fills our soul regardless of our experience, thoughts, and emotions.
