Choose God Everyday

Proverbs 27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. (NKJV)

James 4:13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. (NKJV)

Joshua 24:14 “Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD! 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” (NKJV)

Read Joshua 24

I was talking to a lady today about walking with the Lord and that it can be hard sometimes.  Then we had a celebration about the power of the Holy Spirit that enables us to choose God over our fleshly desires, or whatever the enemy is tempting us with at the moment.  The bible says that today is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.  Every day is a gift from God.  Whether we choose to take advantage of it or not, God’s grace and mercy has touched us and allowed our eyes to open and see a new day.  What do you do each day with your gift?  Are you rejoicing?  The Lord did not have to do it.  That is what we see in the book of James chapter 4.  We always have to be mindful that “if the Lord wills” we will see our loved ones again.  If the Lord wills we will have the house we are living in.  If the Lord wills we will get that job or promotion.  But you know what is more important than that?  If the Lord wills there will be another day for us to choose God and the salvation of Jesus Christ. 

What does choosing God mean to you?  Does it just mean that you say the words and give others and God lip service?  Or have you made a declaration that you have and will live by the Word of God like Joshua did before the children of Israel.  See regardless of what other people say or do, what are you going to do?  Regardless of what the world portrays as right and acceptable, what are you going to do?  Do you choose what the bible says, or what your friends do?  Do you choose what God is speaking to you in that moment, or are you too embarrassed to stand for God so you yield to temptation and sin?  Ask yourself TODAY who you will choose. 

Others see your profession as you go throughout the day.  What are they seeing?  A person who walks humbly yielding to God by His Holy Spirit, or a prideful disobedient person who has made a choice and fallen away from God?  See you can’t walk in the Light and in darkness at the same time.  You have to choose. 

Our gracious and heavenly Father.  Lord God almighty.  King of kings and Lord of lords, we bless Your holy Name.  We profess to rejoice in this day, for You have given us the opportunity to choose You.  You have allowed us to acknowledge Your sovereignty and grace.  Forgive us, with a repentant heart we ask You to receive us into the light and love of Your Son Jesus Christ.  Thank you Jesus.  AMEN. 

So Beautiful……

Cookie Lyons on the FOX show Empire was lying in jail singing the words to a song that I think every woman should admit that they long to hear:  You’re so beautiful, I will wait for you!  

That scene just touched me….I could feel it.  How our hearts need that hope, hope that allows us to survive even when we are locked up. You might not have been physically behind bars, but we do have a way of locking our heart up because of the pains we have experienced in this world.  We shut people out, we don’t open up to know people or let them know us.  It is all the same.  We want to be safe from the pain.  We have lost hope that that there is someone who thinks we are beautiful, and will wait for us as to heal and hope again.  We might have even lost hope that anything could be beautiful, nonetheless think that about us.  Some of us have lost hope. 

So what kept Cookie Lyons while in that jail cell?  I don’t know.  Maybe hope that the words of the song that her husband sang were true, and that he thought she was so beautiful that he would wait for her. Maybe it was looking at the picture of her family and hoping that she would one day be with her kids again…to love them.  Well he did not wait, he divorced her.  BUT I know someone who we can always hope in, and hope in Him will not disappoint us.  He is a keeper and a mender of hiding locked up hearts.  His love waits and calls us to beautiful.  His name is Jesus and He thinks we are one of His most beautiful creations, perfect, fearfully and wonderfully made.  AND He will always wait for us…until the end of time.  The Lord Jesus longs for us with an incomprehensible love that can break us out of jail and give us a hope that will keep us eternally. 

Ecclesiastes 3¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts...