Jesus is the words to the music in our heart. He alone is also the harmony and the melody – the main tune and all the synchronization and balance and blending of the various parts to make one beautiful song. We let our praises to Him ring from the housetops to the streets below, from the mountains to the valleys in between.
Together with God and His Spirit, Jesus is our mighty God, imaginative Creator, the Prince of our peace, our Refuge and our Redeemer, the Lord of all lords, and the King of all kings. God’s Spirit is our Guide, Intercessor, Sanctifier, and Teacher. God’s Trinity is our everything and abides within us (Colossians 3:3-4). He is all we need (Psalm 18:2).
The easiest way for me to understand our triune God, is to think about my husband. He is a son, a father, and a grandfather; yet he is only one person. He has three distinct roles that he relates through when he is with his father, his children, and his grandchildren. God is one God; yet He also has three distinct roles.
Trusting in God with our whole heart, not getting misled by our human thoughts and feelings, consulting Him in every decision, and loving Him with our every waking thought is our key to a successful Christ-centered, Spirit-led life (Proverbs 3:5-6). When we live life for Him according to His perfect plans for us, we experience success even in the most mundane aspect of our life (Ephesians 2:10).
Prayer:
Father God, Jesus is all together lovely and all together fair. In all heaven and creation, there is none that can compare with Him. His name is above all names, and He is our beautiful Savior, glorious Lord, and our Emmanuel – our God with us, as well as our blessed Redeemer, Provider, and King. You always speedily hear us when we cry out to You, especially when our spirit is weak and threatens to fail us. We thank You for all You are, all that You do for us each moment of every day, and for all that we are going to be.
Your strength sustains us, Your power inspires us, Your wisdom leads us, and Your love and divine nature fills us through our entire being. You stretch out Your hands to us when our soul is parched and weary in this dry and thirsty land (Psalm 143:6; Ephesians 3:16-19). You never hide Your face from us, but You are our constant companion. Your salvation through Jesus’ sacrifice on Calvary’s cross keeps us from sinking into the pit of eternal destruction (Psalm 143:7).
Thoughts for the Day:
In God’s Word He admonishes us to keep His commandments if we love Him. That sounds like a daunting decree; however, if we look at His commandments, we see that they are really very simple, because He created them to protect us.
1st- We recognize that He is our Lord and our God, which keeps us on His straight and narrow path, rather than on the wide road to destruction by worshipping idols and man-made gods.
2nd- If we use His name as profanity, we trample it under our feet, rather than realizing the real power and anointing behind His name.
3rd- We rest on the Sabbath day and use it to remember all His benefits with which He inundates our life.
4th- We honor our parents because most of them give up so much of themselves, their goals, dreams, and ideals to provide for us an abundant life to the best of their ability.
5th- We do not allow our anger to drive us to murder another human being, because that would scar so many for a lifetime and imprison us in our body and soul. God even instructs us that to hate another person is the same as committing murder – the negative emotions that hang out with hate are also devastating to our soul.
6th- We do not commit adultery, because to join our self in an unholy “soul tie” is detrimental to our mental and emotional health and destroys what could be God’s perfect union for our life.
7th- We do not steal or take what does not belong to us. Easily gotten illegal gain does not build Jesus’ divine character in our soul, and we diminish our esteem for our self and our fellow humans on this earth.
8th- We do not lie, because liars are not allowed into God’s Kingdom. When we give a false testimony about someone else, we destroy their life and weaken our standing in our own eyes and in our community.
9th & 10th- When we covet what does not belong to us, we lose our contentment, and we set up our self to fall into Satan’s trap to use our greediness against us.
