Day 321: "The LORD, He Is God; The LORD, He Is God."
Read: 1 Kings 18:20 - 39, Psalm 46
There are sure things in life that you can always count on. The sun and the moon and the stars will always be in the sky but never in the same place and at the same time. The sun will rise during the day and the stars and the moon by night.
We know from Genesis that God spoke into the void, into the chaos, into
the darkness and from it we
we have order, we have the story of
creation. We have our story, We have His story! I have often pondered if
creation had a voice how it would have voiced its wonder at all that
was going on around it. What Word may creation have put out there now
that it was no longer hindered by the silence of the void? Perhaps; "The LORD, He is God!"
Perhaps creation would have been so ecstatic that it would have
repeated itself just to be sure that it could finally hear its voice at
last. The creation story is surely one of the many stories from
Scripture that God uses to get your attention in no uncertain terms. You
can most certainly expect God to attract your attention. I cannot tell
you exactly how He will do it, but I definitely do know that He will do
it! He will attract your attention! God is all about relationship. God created us in His image for the expressed purpose of being in, sharing in a relationship with that which He
created. However, God has this issue with us. It is called sin. It's
called inattention. It's called distraction.
Many of us face
spiritual issues called inattention, distraction. Inattention. We are
not paying attention to what God is telling us. We are asleep, drifting,
blundering through life. But God is at work attracting our attention.
Now He may do it gently or He may do it vigorously. He may speak in that
still, small voice that Elijah heard. Or he may knock you out of your
seat like He did to Saul on the road to Damascus. He may tap you on the
shoulder and whisper into your heart. Or He may use a lightning strike
to shake you down to your boots as He did before these priests of Baal
and those who were assembled curious to know which god (Baal) God (The
LORD), was showing up.
God is about the business of getting our
attention. Sometimes it is quiet. Something we are ready for and we
just receive His word when it comes. But much of the time, God has to
swing the steel pipe. God uses the crisis moments of our lives to get
our attention. God will surely use a defining moment, a filled-up
moment, to challenge us to make a choice. God will, when He must, use a
lightning strike to grab hold of us. I suspect you have had moments like
that. Moments in which all of a sudden something flashed a warning
signal on your radar screen, and you realized that God was getting your
attention, trying to provoke any kind of response from you, maybe
through a well
timed conversation. Will you respond? Can you respond? "The LORD, He is God; The LORD, He is God?"
Let Us Pray: "The LORD, He Is God; The LORD, He Is God." Psalm 46
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Read: 1 Kings 18:20 - 39, Psalm 46
There are sure things in life that you can always count on. The sun and the moon and the stars will always be in the sky but never in the same place and at the same time. The sun will rise during the day and the stars and the moon by night. We know from Genesis that God spoke into the void, into the chaos, into the darkness and from it we
we have order, we have the story of creation. We have our story, We have His story! I have often pondered if creation had a voice how it would have voiced its wonder at all that was going on around it. What Word may creation have put out there now that it was no longer hindered by the silence of the void? Perhaps; "The LORD, He is God!"
Perhaps creation would have been so ecstatic that it would have repeated itself just to be sure that it could finally hear its voice at last. The creation story is surely one of the many stories from Scripture that God uses to get your attention in no uncertain terms. You can most certainly expect God to attract your attention. I cannot tell you exactly how He will do it, but I definitely do know that He will do it! He will attract your attention! God is all about relationship. God created us in His image for the expressed purpose of being in, sharing in a relationship with that which He created. However, God has this issue with us. It is called sin. It's called inattention. It's called distraction.
Many of us face spiritual issues called inattention, distraction. Inattention. We are not paying attention to what God is telling us. We are asleep, drifting, blundering through life. But God is at work attracting our attention. Now He may do it gently or He may do it vigorously. He may speak in that still, small voice that Elijah heard. Or he may knock you out of your seat like He did to Saul on the road to Damascus. He may tap you on the shoulder and whisper into your heart. Or He may use a lightning strike to shake you down to your boots as He did before these priests of Baal and those who were assembled curious to know which god (Baal) God (The LORD), was showing up.
God is about the business of getting our attention. Sometimes it is quiet. Something we are ready for and we just receive His word when it comes. But much of the time, God has to swing the steel pipe. God uses the crisis moments of our lives to get our attention. God will surely use a defining moment, a filled-up moment, to challenge us to make a choice. God will, when He must, use a lightning strike to grab hold of us. I suspect you have had moments like that. Moments in which all of a sudden something flashed a warning signal on your radar screen, and you realized that God was getting your attention, trying to provoke any kind of response from you, maybe through a well
timed conversation. Will you respond? Can you respond? "The LORD, He is God; The LORD, He is God?"
Let Us Pray: "The LORD, He Is God; The LORD, He Is God." Psalm 46
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