Journal 5-13-14

          What would you say if I told you that God is waiting to be good to us? “And therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you and therefore He lifts Himself up that He may have mercy on you and show loving kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are those who wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him” (Isaiah 30:18).
          The one thing in my life I have dealt with many times is fear of being lonely, fear of rejection, and fear of loss. Fear of nothingness.  The way Satan gets me flustered the most today is financial burden, legal burden, and doubt. I just want to be free.  I want to be loved. I want to be able to show that love to Angela, Mia, Zarria, Nick, Savanah, Faith, Hunter, and my friends. “I need a reset button God.”
          Perhaps you are lacking the natural love that every person desires and seeks. Perhaps your family has jumped out of the car with you. I believe God wants us to know that His love for us is unfailing. He wants us to recognize that He wants to adopt us into the family of God. He wants us to know that in Him and only Him there is comfort.  John 14: 18 says, “I will not leave you as orphans, I will come (back) to you.” Psalm 27:10 says, “Although my father and my mother have forsaken me, yet the Lord will take me up.”
          Many years ago Paul prayed for guys like me and people like us. He said in Ephesians 3 “may Christ through our faith dwell in our hearts. May we be rooted deep in love, that we may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp what is the breadth and length and heighth and depth of that love, to know the love of Christ, which far surpasses knowledge, and we might be filled with the fullness of God.”  I’m pretty sure God wants us to have the love He offers so that we might deal with the things we face more effectively. The things like I deal with daily and what you deal with as well. These things are different for everyone. What they are does not matter. What does matter is that we recognize that God is waiting on us to give it to Him so He can fill us with warmth, love, and all the things that we think on when we are dreaming about the “good life”.

Prayer

Father God, thank you. Forgive us of all our iniquities, heal us of all our afflictions and diseases, redeem us from the pit of corruption, beautify us, dignify us, and crown us with loving kindness and tender mercy. Show us Lord what we need to do to receive you Father. In Jesus name, Amen

Thoughts: 
What do we need to do in our lives to receive what God has for us so He is no longer waiting?