The answer to that thought, if indeed you have had it, is yes.
In many Psalms, the Psalmist entreats God not to forget him. Now, David didn't have the indwelt Spirit so he didn't know the constant presence of God inside himself. But he did know the presence of God in his life. Perhaps this is a Old Covenant cry. God please don't forget me. Please remember your promises.
How often has this been the cry of our Spirits even today? God don't forget me, don't forget your promises. And yet Jesus told us that God knows when even a hair of our heads falls to the ground. We have been told in Scripture that God knows the end from the beginning and that every promise has been completed in His mind since before the foundation of the world.
How great is our God? How wonderful are His promises? How perfect is His timing? How awesome His power?
Do we remember that God is the creator of the universe? Or do we let our circumstances guide our thoughts and feelings? Do we remember that Jesus died for everyone in the world? Or do we let our prejudices get in the way of our call to bring the word?
I prayed with a young lady on Sunday who feels that she has a Pastoral call on her life and yet she couldn't seem to break away from the world and begin to walk in the way. What I told her is what we all need to evaluate in our lives: Make God the God of your life. Who is God to us? Is He just someone we go to when we have problems? Is He just someone that we think about on Sunday? Do we say "yes, yes that's what I'm supposed to do" and just go on about our regular lives and forget?
James says be doers of the word. Those that listen to the word and then don't do it are like someone who looks at themselves in a mirror and then go away and forget what they look like. That always seemed odd to me...how can one forget what they look like. But really that's the point isn't it? How can one listen to the word, really listen, and then not do what it says?
2 Corinthians 3:18 is somewhat of a "life verse" for me. It says that all we with unveiled face contemplate or reflect the Lord's glory are being transformed into His image from one degree of glory to another (or with ever increasing glory) which comes from Lord who is the Spirit.
Is God the God of ALL of our lives? Note that I ask the question of myself as well as of you. I have determined in Spirit that I would rather be transformed into His glory than forget what my natural self looks like.
Today, this very moment, begin to let God show you what He wants you to do or do what you know He's told you. We do hear and recognize His voice if we are His children, but I guess that's a blog for another day.
Please keep remember Mike and me in your prayers as we go. We need more funding so that we can go and do what God has told us to do in Scotland.
Blessings on you all!
Mike and Tina Hook
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