Category: December

Who are We?

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Dec 26Who are we?

David raises this question to God in Psalm 144.

He asks God why he even notices us.

Why does God think about us at all?

We are like passing shadows and yet God loves us.

He created us in love and he gave us the choice whether to love him back or not.

He didn’t need us when he created us and he doesn’t need us now……

But he loves us and he wants us to love him back.

We have no significance at all – except the significance God gives us by adopting us and making us his children…….

When we believe.  When we choose him and love him back.

Thank you, dear Father, for giving us significance.

It’s Never Enough

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“You eat but aren’t satisfied.

You drink but are still thirsty.

You put on clothes but cannot keep warm.

Your wages disappear as though you were putting them in pockets filled with holes.”

Sounds like Haggai could be talking to us today, doesn’t it?Dec 20

Our culture is definitely anti-contentment.  There’s always something bigger.  There’s always something better.  There’s always something newer.  There’s always ……….more.

If one word could define the motivation of our culture today, ‘more’ might be it.

We don’t stop to consider how much stress and unhappiness ‘more’ actually gives us.

How many divorces are because of  ‘more’?  Sometimes it’s from wanting more and sometimes it’s from the consequences of having more.

How many sleepless nights are the result of ‘more’?

How many broken lives are the result of ‘more’?

God tells us over and over in his word that he is all that we need.  Every desire we have is really a desire to have ‘more’ of God. 

And having more of him actually satisfies us.

Dear Father, Please help us correctly identify our desires as wanting more of you in our lives.  Thank you for the contentment you bring.

Prayer for the New Year

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Dec 16Dear Father,

You have told us what is good.

You have told us what is required of us….

to do what is right,

to love mercy,

and to walk humbly with you.

It is our prayer, as we roll very quickly into the new year,

*that your spirit will live in us more boldly. 

*that your truth will be our daily compass.

*that we will love the things that you love

*and hate the things that you hate.

Please help us walk very humbly

and very closely

with you, our God, in 2013.

Not Hot or Cold

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John’s letter to the church in Laodicea accuses them of being  just lukewarm.

Neither hot or cold.Dec 12

And he tells them he wishes they were one or the other….not just lukewarm.

Lukewarm is comfortable.

It seems like a safe place to be, doesn’t it?

But then John goes on to tell them that they think they have everything they want but they are in fact miserable and poor and wretched and naked….

and blind.  Which is probably why they don’t realize what bad shape they are in.

Blindness.  We all have blind spots.  John is telling us that being lukewarm and ‘comfortable’ is one of those blindspots.

He challenges them to turn from their indifference.

And he challenges us today as we read this.  Where are the areas of our faith where we are lukewarm?

Dear Father, please open our eyes to our blind spots and grow our passion for you until it becomes very uncomfortable to be anywhere but in the center of your will.

Old…and New

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“Love one another’ is an old commandment that we had from the very beginning, John tells us in the second chapter of 1 John.

“Yet it is also new,” John says.Dec 1

Because Jesus came.

And he loved like no one has ever loved before.  He changed the meaning of this commandment for all time.

He loved us so much that he died a shameful, cruel death.

So that we might live.

So that we might love.

Like he loved.

So we can help push the darkness back….

to let the true light shine.

Dear Father, thank you for the love you lavish upon us every day!

It’s Proof

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“And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us.”

God has given us proof.Dec 4

We know this is true because we read it in the Bible.

And we feel his presence…

when he whispers.

when he wraps us in the shelter of his arms.

when he works things out for us and it’s better than what we had planned.

when he gives us the right words to say at just the right time.

or he helps us keep our mouth shut at just the right time 🙂

Thank you, dear Father!