May My Heart See...

A beautiful hymn (sing with me now) Open our eyes, Lord.   We want to see Jesus.   To reach out and touch Him, and say that we love Him. Open our ears, Lord, and help us to listen. Open our eyes, Lord, we want to see Jesus . My prayer is that the postings in this blog have helped your heart-site – that is, that your heart has seen JESUS.   Like in . . . REAL expectations?   Oh to be truly thankful for what I have and to have REAL expectations in life. May my heart see – the Reality of Your Goodness, dear Lord! Leaving it there!   Contemplating all the lessons learned over the years, one of my biggest “heart” lesson is the one about “leaving it there. May my heart see ALL THE LORD IS   as I leave it with Him! It ain’t easy!   It ain’t easy to be satisfied nowadays.   I want to love the Lord, my God with ALL my heart, ALL my soul, and ALL my strength.    To have this be my heart’s true desire is to find contentment. May my heart see and my desire be, in Christ alone!!   

My church has started a 90-day challenge of reading the entire Bible.   Yes, I said the ENTIRE Bible.   WOW – what a commitment!   And its been AWESOME!   My husband is reading, my son and his wife, our friends . . . all of us, starting at Genesis and reading through.   It’s a story.   A story of the beginning, how we all started.   Fascinating!.     The problem is there are so many why’s – why did God do that?   Why didn’t He stop that?   Why, why, WHY?     But its not about the “why’s” – its about the . . . WHO.   Its about the WHAT.   Who God is – what He has done.   What He wants, expects, rejects and loves.   THAT’s what its all about. God, in HIS infinite wisdom does WHAT He wants – He’s God.   Its all about God – its not about me or us.   Because He is God, He knows all, sees all and is all.   He takes creation and teaches us who we are and what we should do.   He loves and forgives and loves and then forgives and then destroys and then He loves again!   AMAZING! His prov

So we’ve confessed.   We’re forgiven.   Now what?   It’s a new day, and we start all over.   Adore, confess, thank, request – adore, confess, thank, request . . .   wait, I’m in a rut.   I keep confessing the same old, same old.   I am repeating the same bad habits, the same sinful tendencies – “I don’t do what I want to do and what I want to do, not happening”   – my version of Paul’s statement to the Romans. Paul finishes off the paragraph in Romans 7: For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;   but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.   What a wretched man I am!   Who will rescue me from this body of death?   Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! Let’s take that apart, shall we?   First we must “delight” in God’s law IN OUR INNER BEING.   First, we must know the law before we can delight in it, I’m thinking.   So we read the Word, study it.

This morning, in my prayer time, I found praising God hard.   Ever have that happen to you?   When I pray, I use the acronym ACTS for my prayer time:   A dore/ C onfess/ T hanksgiving and S upplication.   A-C-T-S So I start with adoring and end with bringing my requests before my King.     But this morning, because I had an “attitude” about something, (in other words I was being obstinate and didn’t want to admit it!) – I found starting with adoration wasn’t where I should be.   I needed to confess and I needed to do it ASAP.   So, even though I didn’t want to, or like it, I delved in and confessed.   I admitted.   It didn’t come natural, believe me.   There was a lot of “delving” involved! But why is that so hard?   Why is confessing small sins (can the word, “small” EVER be before the word, “sin”????) so difficult?   Adoration, now THAT’S easy:   adoring WHO He is and praising Him for it – contemplating His creation, His Being, His Name, His Love, His works . . . are you get