We have been talking about prayer and my experience today has involved a lot of thankfulness, continual thankfulness in praise to Him.
It’s the end of the week and my little family is tired. We just could not get the normal routine into gear this morning and then my eldest reminds me that we have to be at his school early (8.30) as he has to practice drums for churchtime. Faith won’t get her shoes on and we need to get her to day-care FIRST!!. Will can’t even find his socks to get his shoes on and we need to take him to the bus-stop NEXT!! This leaves Jack and I exactly 6 minutes to make a 12 minute trip to school without any unnecessary speeding....ok, sure. Will’s bus is two minutes later than usual, which ordinarily wouldn’t make a difference....but today!!! Make that 4 minutes to get to school.....Arghhhhh!!! Cranky Mother alert!!!!
Praise God I opened his word today at an old Psalm, my favourite Psalm and yet one I haven’t read for a long time...convinced I already knew it so well.....but that is the great thing about God’s word....there is something new every time we are in it....that’s why we need to be continually in it.
Psalm 139....It begins like this.. “Oh Lord you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I‘m far away. You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord. You go before me and follow me.
And then I get to this bit..... “You place your hand of blessing on my head”
And then it goes on to say, “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand.”
Why hadn’t that been obvious to me before??
Of course it is too hard for us to comprehend and yet it’s the truth...that knowing truly who we are he still wants to bless us, to place His hand of blessing on our heads...this is the God that we serve... that knows everything about us when we are out when we are at home(Being cranky trying to get everyone off to school) before we do it, or say it! Yet He still wants to bless us!! He wants the best for us!!
I was so humbled....I am so human and yet so loved....and so blessed....and because of this, I am so willing to not let condemnation hold me back, but to remember that in my weakness He is made strong. I just have to make the decision to keep handing myself, my humanness, back to Him and move on with my day...his day. He created this day. He blesses me for it.
Be in God’s word today and everyday and may it cause you to praise him continually today and every day, that he may be glorified through your life as you humble yourself before him.
We got to Jack’s school a little bit late...Jack played well and I was totally blessed by the ministry of our school at churchtime...so blessed!! Thank you Lord!
