Greetings in Christ. I may slow down in my blog posts as soon as I got started again. Last night, playing softball I fell on my right wrist and fractured two bones. Now it is extremely difficult and time consuming to type one handed and left handed at that. So I ask kindly for your prayers for rapid healing and your patience with my posts over the next few weeks. This is not how I envisioned my first several weeks of ministry but life happens.
This morning's devotion was on Psalm 21 and there was a line that caught my attention. Verse 6 includes "you make him glad with the joy of your presence" as it is listing all the gifts and blessings God has given to the king. It made me wonder, are we glad with the joy of God's presence? I mean it is probably just instinct to answer yes, of course we are glad God's is with us. But really stop and think about it. Do you really want God present in your life 100% of the time. It truly is a great thing God is there when we need Him and it is a joyous thing that we can go to Him any time in prayer. But the fact that God is always right there, always watching us, and constantly aware of what we are doing or not doing... does that make us glad with joy?
There are definitely times where we fail temptations or even worse actually enjoy our acts of sins where we probably wish God wasn't there. There are times we wish God wasn't watching us. knowing our every thought and action. But at the same time it is a joyful thing that God loves us enough to always be with us. Even when He knows all of our secrets, our failings, and our sins, He still loves us enough to forgive us and continue to be with us. God never gives up on us and that is a good thing, no it is a great thing. So let God's presence in your life not scare you or worry you, but rather let it make you glad. Praise him for the joy of His presence in your life. Be glad in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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