Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah

The Prodigal

On days like today, with many things of the natural distracting my attention from you, I see how forgiving and loving of a Father you are. I've wasted many a moment with other things and not sat at your feet. But when you come to mind again I realize what in what state I am. Nothing today has been satisfying  though I have "accomplished" much I am parched for you! O Father, receive me back into your presence! So that I may partake even of the scraps at your table. You not only gladly receive me but bestow on me a feast! You always are there with open arms to receive.

Arise and Shine!

What a beautiful day! The Lord woke me up this morning at just the right moment when I turned over in bed toward the window, the sun boldly rose up over the horizon. And when I opened the word a little later it opened to Isa.60. Not the usual reading for most on this day. For years I have been opposed to the untimely traditions of men and preached against the wrongness of them, but I have also been in the wrong. It is right to say that the church has strayed in regards to how they remember the resurrection, mixing with earthly things. But I have not helped in pointing our eyes to the One who arose. My focus has also been on these earthly things.... in opposition to them.​

In Isaiah 60  the Lord shows us that we will no longer be subject to earthly time. Not that the sun and moon will forever go away(Ps 89, 136), but that for us we will not need to be subject to its timing(v 19-20)(Rev 21:23, 22:5), their rising and setting, waxing and waning. The true Son is everlasting Light; there is no waxing and waning with Him.

His time is not April 20 or back in the month of March like last year's observance of the resurrection. He appointed a day almost two millennia ago, not making his purpose fit into our calendar but making a day to fulfil His purpose.

Basking in the Son today...

Lift me up to Thee!

Thou brought me up
From a place where things
Could never satisfy
Out from the desert
To a place
Where the waters
Never run dry

Lift me up to Thee!

Let us walk from a place
Where the sands blow around
Up to a place of fruitful ground
Out from the desert dry
Up to a garden on
A mountain high

Lift me up to Thee!

Soaring High

Ready to step off this earthly ground

Knowing that it is in Him I am found

Higher I go to a place I can't see

Closer I am hiding in Thee

 

My treasure place

My heavenly store

Lift me up and make me soar!

 

Wind beneath these arms of feathers

Draw me up from the earthly nether

Soaring high to heavenly realm

To rest with Thee at Thy helm

 

 

 

 

Fear not tomorrow, God is already there

 

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water
Out of the wells of salvation.
And in that day shall ye say,
Praise the Lord.
(Repeat)

Call upon His name,
Declare His doings among the people,
Make mention that His name is exalted.
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion:
For great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

*artwork by blog author