Day #44

Good Morning!!  So excited to share this study with you today:D

My prayer for you and I today, is that we all know each day, how good God is.  I am asking Him to bring us all to a place where we can see Him in all things, even the small things, and be AMAZED!

Yesterday we ended the study with a scripture to prepare us for today.  Do you remember what it was?  It was Psalm 138:6.

If you are like me, when you first read it, you are like, “Okay??  I know this is God’s Word, so it must be saying something good.  But, uhh, what does it mean exactly?”  Well today, I hope that we will all have our eyes opened and really say, “Ahhh, I get it.  I know what it means!”

Stop for a few seconds, and ask God to have mercy on you and to begin helping you see things differently… like how God sees.

The first thing we need to know is that God is omnipresent.  Omnipresent means that God is everywhere, all the time, in all His fullness.  When I say everywhere, I literally mean everywhere!!  With the Christian, with the unbeliever, and even all the way to the bird that falls from the tree…

          “…But not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.”  Matthew 10:29.

The second thing we need to know is that when a person chooses to become a believer/follower of Jesus Christ, not only will they know the omnipresence of God, but they will also know the Holy Spirit presence too.  Believers receive the Holy Spirit in their hearts when they choose Christ. This type of presence makes the believer uncomfortable with their sin and helps them know how to live in a way that pleases God.  Whether they do it or not, is up for question.

Now let’s stop and camp out here for just a moment.  As a believer, you have the Holy Spirit presence of God, right?  Yes!  But hold up, there is still one more type of presence.

Now read Psalm 138:6 one more time.  Notice the wording?

          “For the though the Lord is high, He regards the lowly, but the haughty He knows from afar.”

Our God is MAGNIFICENT!  Even in all His splendor, he has an even more SPECIAL PRESENCE for believers that are humble or lowly.  These believers know they are small, God is big, and they like it!!  Their humility draws the SPECIAL PRESENCE of the LORD.  This type of presence is extremely powerful!  God’s love radiates through these humble, ordinary people, to everyone they come across.  Even in the roughest of situations, God's love just overflows off of these people onto everyone around them, even the idiots that don't deserve it!!  They are an amazing giver of God’s mercy.  Their focus is Him being center stage, them being an unnoticed stage-hand, AND THEY LIKE IT!!!

But, those Christians that are proud, self-promoting, haughty, lofty, arrogant, uppish, snobby (generally living life their own way and as if He does not exist), God will not be close to.  He will resist them.  He will not bless them.  He will see them from afar.  None of their ways of doing things will work out.  He will never allow them to continue a life like this, because if He did He would be contributing to their sin, and GOD DOES NOT CONTRIBUTE TO SIN! 

IMPORTANT NOTE:  Before we start thinking of who is proud and who is humble, take a look at yourself.  As believers, we all will come in and out of these conditions from time to time… lowly then haughty… prideful then arrogant.

I bring this up because we need to see where the uncomfortable, irritating sensations we discussed in yesterday's lesson come from.  They come from the Lord!  He allows our soul to be disturbed and aggravated because we are not living in a way that is pleasing to Him.

You may ask, well how do I get right with God?  Ask God to show you your pride.  When He does, come clean with it.  Tell Him specifically what you know is the sin.  Don’t have even the words to say??  Fumble through them, but still say them, out loud!  Ask Him to help you out of it in whatever way necessary!  He will.  He will show you a way out!  He will be your escape!  This won’t be easy.  OBEYING is required!

TARGET of the DAY

Obey God today with what you have learned.  Yesterday has already passed, so there is nothing you can do about it.  “Don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries…”  Matthew 6:34.

Stay focused on today only.