Consider God for He Considers You!

The moment we begin too much to look within the more we are lost in the myriads of memories of sin and how horrible we are. Of course the good thing that comes of it is this, we learn and realize how good God is.

I am a person who is constantly looking inward,introspecting, sorting things out inside me, trying impossibly to become perfect every single day. That's all good you might think but there is one thing wrong here! Well the one thing is my focus is me, instead of looking at Jesus and concentrating on His works for my life, I am dwelling on me and I have no hope to give myself on how to get out of my situation.

Therefore I love how David considers himself and looks at his pathetic self and then looks up to God and describes Him and all His grandeur and glory and awesomeness and there he finds his strength and hope!

In Psalm 33 David describes why we should Rejoice in God

• For the word of the Lord is right
• All His work is done in faithfulness
• He loves righteousness and justice
• the earth is full of the loving-kindness of the Lord
• By the word of the Lord were the heavens made
• The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of His heart through all generations

And much much more.     
For some may ask if all this is true, then why is there so much unrest and sorrow on the earth if God's loving-kindness is all over the earth?

 ¹⁸ Behold, the Lord’s eye is upon those who fear Him [who revere and worship Him with awe], who wait for Him and hope in His mercy and loving-kindness

There are a group of people who expectantly wait and watch for His mercy and loving-kindness. God's mercies are spread everywhere and they are visible in the lives of those who wait and depend upon Him! He has given us the choice of receiving or rejecting His mercies for our lives!

As for those who do wait upon Him for their very existence....God watches out for them

¹⁸ Behold, the Lord’s eye is upon those who fear Him [who revere and worship Him with awe], who wait for Him and hope in His mercy and loving-kindness,

¹⁹ To deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.

Why not try out this relationship with God your Creator Who is constantly and intently looking at the people on the earth to seek out whom He may bless!

2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.

Unconfessed Sin and Bone Diseases - Get Forgiveness from God

Some sicknesses, I believe, are spiritually related. The Bible especially relates diseases of the bone to un-confessed sin.

David says in Psalm 32 about the time when he remained silent about his sins and hoped everything would eventually go away, but his bones began deteriorating as he continued to hide his sin.

When I kept silent, my bones wasted away

 It is not good enough to be a good person. No matter how good we are, our goodness will still measure up only to filthy rags in the presence of a Holy God! We might be doing everything right, everything good, beneficial for others but if we do not have forgiveness of our sins through believing in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection, we will not see God. No wonder all other religions don't have a clearly defined end for the people who believe in it. Some believe, the person keeps on going through the cycle of birth and rebirth till they live one perfect life and find moksha (get rid of their cyclic life). Some believe they need to get rid of certain types of people on the earth in order to achieve their salvation! Only Jesus said "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life! No one comes to the Father God but through Me. How then can we find peace with a Holy God? David says in Psalm 32:5

Then I acknowledged my sin to you
    and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, “I will confess
    my transgressions to the Lord.”
And you forgave
    the guilt of my sin.

Why is this the way to do it? Why not just concentrate on doing a lot of good things here on earth and then ask God if this is good enough for Him to take us into His Kingdom? This would not work for about 3 reasons that come to mind

1. God is the Creator of all things and He is the lawmaker and none of us are above(greater) than His law so we cannot bend it to suit ourselves.
2. God is so Holy, an all consuming fire. If we think we can put our hands in fire and hope it does not burn aren't we being foolish? The nature of fire is to burn anything that comes in contact with it! God is Holy and this anything that comes in contact with it and is not Holy will be consumed in His Holy Fire!
3. By ourselves, there is no way that we can ever break out of our sinful life, which obviously God knew we could not so He had a plan (and always does) and sent His Only Son Jesus (equally Holy, equally God, equally human) to suffer the wrath that would have otherwise come on us because of God's nature of Holiness. Only God can handle God's wrath! Only God can create a heart of Holiness in us! Only God can cover us in His sheet of righteousness so He could come near us, without consuming us in His Holy Fire, just to commune with us like He loved to with Adam and Eve in the cool of the day.

God's call for being Holy is His call to restore our fellowship with Him! He has taken all the initiatives needed for us to be restored to Him, unhindered! All that we have to do is accept His sacrifice for us, acknowledge His plan for our salvation through Jesus Christ alone and be restored in fellowship with Him. If it be hard for you to grasp this fact, lets read Psalm 32:8 

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; 
I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.

 God longs for you to commune with Him, way more than you can ever imagine!

God knows your every trouble and feels your every pain

The stuff that David wrote down during his times of trouble are the same ones that help us word our own pain and sufferings to God. Also the fact that God called him "man after His own heart" could help us speak with God the way David communed with Him and get close to God's heart. David had no one else to call friend on earth, except Jonathan (his enemy's son). He found a friend in God with Whom he shares all his cares and worries and through this David learned that God did really respond in his situations and delivered him out of all troubles.

 v7I will be glad and rejoice in your love,
    for you saw my affliction
    and knew the anguish of my soul.

He was absolutely sure God had heard every single cry he made and had felt every single hurt he felt. These are the sufferings David is going through in private and no one else knows it but God. Yet when God blesses him, He blesses him in the sight of all.

v19 How abundant are the good things
    that you have stored up for those who fear you,
that you bestow in the sight of all,
    on those who take refuge in you.

 Take heart my friends in God, your Creator and His Son Lord Jesus. All the trials you go through, in private and you think no one knows or no one cares, God has seen your anguish and your secret tears in the night! He has seen it all and when we completely lay down our sorrows before Him and like David when we say

Into your hands I commit my spirit;
    deliver me, Lord, my faithful God.
...But I trust in you, Lord;
    I say, “You are my God.”
¹⁵ My times are in your hands;
    deliver me from the hands of my enemies,
    from those who pursue me. 

God hears it and constantly covers His children who have taught themselves to make God their first point of contact for anything pertaining to their life. So no matter what conspiracy any human devises against a child of God - God protects them.

In the shelter of your presence you hide them
from all human intrigues;
you keep them safe in your dwelling
from accusing tongues.

So go ahead you children of the one True Living God

• Pour your heart out to Him, for He hears and knows and feels everything you are going through
• Commit your spirit  in His hands to learn from God's Presence.
• Surrender your times on this earth in God's hands  to make them beautiful in His time
• Take refuge in Him for God saves you in His dwelling!

Psalm 31:23-24
Love the Lord, all his faithful people!
    The Lord preserves those who are true to him,
    but the proud he pays back in full.
²⁴ Be strong and take heart,
    all you who hope in the Lord.

Come take a stroll with your Living God!

OH Yeah!

This is the Almighty God I serve,

• He Who never lets His people down!
• He Who never lets His people be put to shame when they are following Him exactly!
• When His people humble themselves and pray, HE DOES Answer!
• Oh death where is thy victory!

When Jesus lived on this earth, He did not live like the way His followers are living now. He did not live in constant fear of what will happen next. He did not live in any fear for His provisions. He did not live worrying whether Father God would answer His prayer or not! He knew His Father way more intensely and deeply for anything on this earth to put a dent in their relationship. In return, Jesus never had a loss!

In Jesus God dealt with death with the ultimate punishment for sin and rendered it powerless so God's creation can now have life abundantly. So what profit is there in a human's death, nothing but sorrow especially if one leaves without knowing God their Creator. David says in Psalm 29 as follows

Psalm 30 : 9-12

⁹ What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit (the grave)? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth and faithfulness to men?

¹⁰ Hear, O Lord, have mercy and be gracious to me! O Lord, be my helper!

¹¹ You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,

¹² To the end that my tongue and my heart and everything glorious within me may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

There are people on this planet who are struggling and living in ignorance of this Loving and Living God. The ones who think they know God (mostly because they were born into the religion that sort of believes in Him) but have no real relationship with Him, continue living a nominal and powerless life.Blending in just like the rest of the people around them, with no difference to show forth for this AWESOME GOD. Some followed a protocol viz. believe - get baptized - receive the Holy Spirit - continue with your life like nothing happened!

I have a bone to pick with such as these. No, I am not saying I have completely grasped all that God has spiritually, scripturally, theologically offered to me, but now that I have begun listening more than just blabbering during my prayer times with Him, I am getting a chance to hear Him. So from this point of time in my spiritual journey in life, I want to urge my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Rise up, take charge, sit down with God Your creator, to Whom you have access because of a very heavy price that His Own Son Jesus paid for you and more than that He even sent His precious Holy Spirit to guide you into your relationship with Him!

NOW because of Jesus Christ there is nothing stopping you from having a relationship with your Heavenly Father, the same One Who strolled with Adam and Even in the cool of the day in the garden of Eden. So come brothers and sisters to take a stroll with Your Living and Loving God!

P. S. Check out the other meaning of stroll

1. walk in a leisurely way
2. a victory or an objective that is easily achieved

Stroll with God like you have all the time in the world to hang out with Him!

Christ in You the Hope of Glory!

When we are surrounded by troubles, it stares at us in our face and stuns us, to paralyze us with fear! It attempts first to take out your faith, for fear is the opposite of faith! 

If the enemy can zap out your faith you have nothing else to depend on, nothing to hold onto and then the problem before you seems insurmountable, way bigger (which it probably is for a human anyway), way out of bounds, something that, by human reasons, cannot be solved! 

What we inadvertently do then is, ascribe more power to the enemy, the power he never had in the first place! The power/position you give to him is what he will use to intimidate you and after all is done, to destroy you. Remember always, the enemy has come only to steal, kill and destroy but Jesus came so we have life and life abundantly!!! That is that and this divine truth should be embedded in our hearts!

This is exactly what David talks about in Psalm29:1

^"1 Ascribe to the Lord, O sons of the mighty, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength."

Now what does this mean? Lets first look at the meaning of each word, even though we have assumed some kind of meaning in our head!

Ascribe means to give credit for, to attribute, to credit.
Glory means high renown or honour won by notable achievements.
Strength means the quality or state of being physically strong. 

We give God far less of a credit than He deserves for things that He can handle! On the other hand, we give the enemy too much credit for things he cannot do. We must be very careful of what we decide to ascribe to God and what we don't!

Now as you continue reading, David gives powerful descriptions of God's voice in the following verses. It is the sound of God in raw power resonating through nature, like lightning and what were God's people doing in the meanwhile..."while in His temple everyone is saying, Glory!"

If you were thinking all this raw power of God is a distant thing which only the fortunate or the sternly faithful ones can experience I would like to present to you John 17:22 

 ²² I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one!

David could only see this glory in things that happened external to him, but through Jesus we have God's unfathomable power at work within us, transforming us and the very world that surrounds us. No matter what situations you are going through or you are in, when you have accepted Jesus to be Lord of your life, all of your frail self is transformed to His power, His honor and His glory!

Colossians 1:27 "To whom God was pleased to make known how great for the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ within and among you, the Hope of [realizing the] glory."

Christ dwells in you to demonstrate His glory through you to the world around you!
So you child of God, go ahead demonstrate Christ fully before the ones who are yet to know Him!