Psalm 20 - Well, we can invest in our chariots and horses or we can invest in our God. When the race is over, the chariots will rust and the horses will be lame, but God...He will be God. And He desires that we will be still standing on our feet, standing tall. Make Him your life's desires and nothing else!
Psalm 21 - If God could give you what you wanted, what would it be? Would it be everlasting or just a short pleasure? Would it be part of passing on to the next generations or is it just for you? King David wanted the heart of God and that is exactly what He got. Solomon wanted wisdom and that is what he got. The rich man got what he wanted and he walked away sad. If you are not wanting the heart of God...it will not satisfy.
Romans 6 - I hate being in any kind of water that I can't see the bottom of! When I was a kid swimming in a pond, I stepped on something sharp that hurt and bled like crazy. To this day, I don't know what it was, but I was young enough to think that I stepped on a fish and its fins went in me and that was it. No more swimming in water I can't see. So I begin to swim in the bathtub :). I love clear water...so I can see what I am swimming with. I think it is the same way with the Lord. We have all this water that we can live in...but only one type of water satisfies our soul. It is the living water, Jesus Christ. The beauty, there is nothing that we "have to do" to get it, we just simply need to receive it. It is ever-flowing. It is refreshing. He never runs empty. He never gets tired. We can bathe in Him...we can drink Him in. We can live full-on in this water, but will we? Because all the other types of water we can live in is dirty and stagnant. Which one is worth going after? "But now that you've found you don't have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God tell you, what a surprise!" (Romans 6:22) We are healed by God's Living Water. There is more and more yet to come...so swim hard for this living water. When you get tired, He is there. When you get thirsty, He is there. When you get lost, He is there...and He will keep coming. God's gift to us is this: real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus (Living Water)...let's make Him our Master.
1 Samuel 7 - 8 - While I'm at sharing my life as a kid, I hated lightning and thunder. Much like Luther, every time lightning and thunder happened as a kid, I made sure that I was right with God, just because I was afraid of getting hit by lightning. Every time it stormed, I felt closer to God because I would repent of my sins. Haha. What we do to be right with God in intense moments is kind of foolish, isn't it? Now, I am a lover of storms. My kids and I experienced a storm awhile back and while it was storming I said outloud, "God, just give us one good show of lightning right now" and it happened within 4 seconds...amazing. I have four little witnesses who can testify to that story. In fact, it happened and we screamed with joy. Then Jojo was like, "i think I'm blind." Anna was like, "dad, you asked for it and God did it." It was awesome. I am sitting here thinking of that while reading about how God intervened for His people by letting a huge thunderclap happen which caused the Philistines to panic and ran from the Israel...haha. Israel chased them and overtook them. Only because of God. They knew God was the one behind it and yet...chapter 8 may be one of the saddest chapters of all of Scripture. I want to rip it out and yet, how often I honor the Lord with amazement and praise only to turn around and say thanks, but no thanks...I'll take it from here. That is exactly what happens in 1 Samuel 8. God was victorious for His people in chapter 7 and now they want a king over them like all the other nations, because God isn't good enough??? Samuel is grieved...the Lord is grieved and yet the Lord says to Samuel, tell the people the consequences of having a human king over them and Samuel does and how do the people respond? "no, we will have a king to rule us! Then we'll be just like all the other nations. Our king will rule us and lead us and fight our battles." They rejected God and cried out for a human king and all of those consequences. Man, if we can't learn from that my friends, what will we learn from? May Jesus be our King and only King. Next time we hear a thunderclap, may it remind us that He is fighting for us.
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