Someone pointed out to me
That a pebble and a diamond
Are alike to a blind man.
Maybe I’ve been fingering
Diamonds all this time
Without even realizing it.
The author of this poem, Steven James, makes the point in his book, The Story, that blindness isn’t because of lack of light. That is darkness. Blindness is the inability to see the light that is all around you.
I think my life has been like this. God is always speaking to me, always moving in my life, but I usually don’t see it unless it is huge. I am like a blind woman who is surrounded by light but I am unable to see.
The prayer I pray the most lately is that God would allow me to see Him and to hear Him. I pray for new eyes to see what I have not seen. I ask for new ears to hear what I have not heard. All I want is to be more aware of His presence. My inability to sense or feel Him isn’t because He isn’t here or isn't moving…it’s because I haven’t known how to look for Him.
The more I pray this prayer and keep my intention towards God, the more I notice Him in my everyday life and sense His love for me.
Consider asking God for greater awareness today. It is a beautiful prayer that will draw you closer to Him.
Grace and Peace,
Deb
Monday, June 21, 2010
awareness
Posted by deb at 12:01 AM
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I love this from Nancy Leigh DeMoss: "you will never know God better than you know His Word".
Carol -
That is an interesting quote but I am not sure I totally agree. I know people who know the Word inside and out and yet they have not allowed it to transform them. I think that is why I believe that information doesn't necessarily lead to transformation. It is more about the relationship and my willingness to surrender my will to God and hear Him no matter how He chooses to speak to me. Make sense?
As always, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I agree, Deb, info will not lead to tranformation. The Spirit of God does the transformation.
God just has so much to say to us in the Bible and people basically don't read it. We are searching here and there for this and that when it is all right there, everything you need for a life in His service.
I'll start "read the Bible in a year" if you will, Deb, and then let's see if we don't know Him more, and His love more, and aren't closer to Him. ?
Carol -
I have been a follower of Jesus for over 35 years and have been in Bible studies most of that time. I sense what God calling me to now is living into what I "know"...seeing that Biblical knowledge move more from my head to my heart. Although I still experince God in deep and meaningful ways in the Scriptures, I also encounter Hin nature, people, music, books...you name it.
I find that God speaks to me in Scripture when I read a small portion and let it sink in rather than larger portions. Have you ever seen Solo? It a devotional by Eugene Peterson (who wrote the message) and he outlines the steps of devotional reading of Scripture or 'lectio divina' allowing you to slow down and take in what the Word is saying...how may God be speaking to you through this particular passage. I find, at least for me, in engaging Scripture this way, God speaks to me more than if I do a read-through. Just what He seems to be calling me to.
I'm the same way, Deb, I can mainly digest small portions at a time. And God speaks in many ways, agreed.
Yes, there is a difference between having Biblical knowledge and having the Word in our hearts. I know that the wolf wears sheep's clothing. I know that the wolf can quote scripture. I know that our struggles are not flesh and blood. I know I can't rely on my feelings about things, or on man's ideas about things of God, that the one place I can turn, and trust and obey and rely on what is there within, and look and see not one false word, and can place all my hope in is the Word.
Peace, rest, blessings in Christ, Carol
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