Psalm 86:11

Psalm 86:11 ^ESV

Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

 

Matthew 6:22-23

 "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 

²³ but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

 

The italicized words are more related than they appear on first glance. The word translated healthy came to be healthy originally started its life as ‘single’. The idea is that if our vision is ‘single’ it is healthy in the sense that we can perceive reality as it is.  If our heart is healthy, united, then it too will be healthy and perceive reality as it is.  In this case, reality: what is really real is that God is more important than anything and literally everything in the universe; therefore, we must fear God more than anything and everything in the universe because that is the way it really is.

 

So, Lord, unite my heart, give me clear vision so that I may see You as supreme over all and completely sufficient for all that I need.

 

Father, praise You for giving me a glimpse of Your glory.

Son, praise You for demonstrating that glory for me.

Spirit, praise You for moving me to even greater visions of Your glory.

 

Seeing reality as He is with you,

Pastor Greg

 

Psalm 81:10; 84:11

Psalm 81:10 ^ESV

I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

 

Psalm 84:11 ^ESV

For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.

 

What promises are offered to those who love God!  Do not believe that God is ashamed of us when we come to Him for good; there is no where else to go for good.  He promises us greater things than we can ask for!

 

Greater because:

1.   We are too easily pleased by garbage and poison and don’t even think of greater things.

2.   We don’t know what the greater things are to ask for.

3.   We are blinded by our own sinful hearts (which are deceitful Jer 17:9).

4.   God’s love, His presence, GOD HIMSELF is the greatest GOOD!

 

To open your mouth and allow someone else to feed you is one of the most humbling things a person can do.  Exactly: that is why God commands you to do it.

 

To walk uprightly, by faith is to live your life like God’s promises are for you and really depend upon God to come through for you on them.  When you do that you will fail to have no good thing.  Do you believe that?  Prove it.

 

Praise You Father for Your wonderful Self!

Praise You Son for demonstrating God with skin on!

Praise You Spirit for communicating that Good which is You to us!

 

Trusting Him for Good with you,

Pastor Greg