Day 11: God Is!
What if GOD stopped pouring out
HIS BLESSINGS & HIS FAVOR upon you?
Now what a horrible thought, yet I thought it.
Because I love when
I have those MOUNTAIN TOP experiences
when GOD blows my socks off,
even though I don't ever wear them.
Oh to be on THE MOUNTAINTOP,
when I feel like MOSES
when GOD spoke to him through the burning bush.
All because of GOD'S GRACE,
when HE shows HIS face to me.
Oh those moments when
THE HOLY SPIRIT chill bumps run through my body,
because I experience
the SOMETHING or the SOMEONE
that you know is
THE BLESSING AND FAVOR OF GOD,
that makes you say,
"Only GOD."
Oh how I want to LIVE on the MOUNTAINTOP.
But GOD never asked me to worship the
MOUNTAINTOP.
HE asks me to worship HIM!
There it is.
IT'S NOT ABOUT ME.
It isn't not about how GOD makes me fee.
It's not about what GOD gives me.
It's not even about the incredible experiences
GOD allows me to have.
It is about GOD.
For I eventually
have to come down from the MOUNTAINTOP,
but I am not leaving GOD behind,
because
"... the LORD your GOD is with you wherever you go"
(Joshua 1:9).
MOUNTAINTOP EXPERIENCES
are those sacred EXPERIENCES,
those GIFTS from GOD,
to remind you that
HE IS with you and that HE IS in CONTROL,
because HE IS GOD.
It isn't in the WORSHIPPING of THE EXPERIENCE,
but in the WORSHIPPING GOD
who orchestrated THE EXPERIENCE.
GOD IS STILL GOD
whether on the MOUNTAINTOP,
or in the valley,
or in the desert.
GOD IS STILL GOD
when I "feel" HIM and when I don't.
"When you pass through the waters,I WILL BE with you;and when you pass through the rivers,they WILL NOT sweep over you.When you walk through the fire,you WILL NOT be burned;the flames will not set you ablaze" (Isaiah 43:2).
So this morning, out of nowhere ,
the thought came:
What if GOD stopped pouring out HIS BLESSINGS and FAVOR upon me.
Oh when NEGATIVITY invites itself into your mind.
One moment you are doing the HAPPY dance,
and then then next moment you feel like you can't even dance.
BUT GOD is THE BLESSING and THE FAVOR,
because GOD IS!
Who else would send HIS SON
to REDEEM all that was lost?
Who else would send HIS SON
to FORGIVE the UNFORGIVABLE?
Who else would send HIS SON
to
HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED?
Who else would INVITE you into a relationship
with HIS SON?
Will GOD ever remove HIS BLESSINGS AND FAVOR from our life?
Or do we remove
HIS BLESSINGS and FAVOR from our life
when we deny HIS SON.
Ouch!
So on this morning while I am reminiscing about
THE IMMEASURABLY MORE that I have experienced
in those moments when
GOD'S BLESSINGS and FAVOR touched my soul so deeply,
that only HE can touch,
the FEAR of not having GOD in my life overwhelmed me.
For who am I without HIM?
NOTHING.
For who am I without HIS SON?
NOTHING.
But who does GOD want me to be?
HE asks me to remove my sandals,
for I am on HOLY ground in HIS PRESENCE.
For who am I?
NOTHING, yet in a great way.
For "I must decrease so that HE increases"
(John 3:30).
So who am I?
I am HIS.
And what does HE ask of me?
To surrender.
To become like clay in the hands
of
THE POTTER.
"Yet You, LORD, are our FATHER. We are the clay,
You are the POTTER; we are all the work of YOUR hand."(Isaiah 64:8).
So who am I?
Putty in my FATHER'S hands.
And I like being putty, and sometimes silly putty.
For when my FATHER gets a hold of me,
so that I become so very STILL,
I am in the sweet spot of surrender
for where I experience
the IMMEASURABLY MORE
than I can never give myself.
Oh the GIFT of STILLNESS,
is experiencing GOD,
whether on the MOUNTAINTOP,
in the valley,
or in the desert. So I guess I had a burning bush experience this morning
that took me from the MOUNTAINTOP onto my knees,
to the place where GOD meets me over and over again,
as I decrease so HE increases.
For "IT ISN'T ABOUT ME" at all~
"Cause I'm just a nobody.
Trying to tell everybody,
All about Somebody,
Who saved my soul"
(listen to the song "NOBODY" below)
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