See Me Coming
“Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul” (Psalm 143:8).
In the distance, I am coming. From afar, I walk towards you, my eyes always on you. I bend my ear close to you, your breath sweet on my cheek. You delight Me, my darling.
Want to run away together, just you and Me?
Running away is staying—staying close—and going with Me. I delight when you stay. I have something for you—a plan, a task to do together. It is not what you think. It is what I reveal to your heart.
Trust your heart.
When you see Me coming—in the distance coming for you—trust your heart. When I am near, when I am so close you know my presence in you, trust your heart.
Trusting means surrendering your will to mine. It means believing Me more than yourself.
I am in you.
Trusting is recognizing my whispers and not your own without Me. Listen to the whispers to your heart when we are together.
Trust Me: I delight in you. I love to be with you. I guide the path for your heart.
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When we’re struggling and suffering, our enemy loves to tell us that God has forgotten us or is aloof to our pain. But of course, this isn’t true. This could never be true of our God, the Good Shepherd who delights in rescuing us and drawing us closer to Him. So why doesn’t He always intervene quickly when we’re hurting? Why does His presence feel so very far away sometimes? Here’s what one author says: “To continue being formed in apprenticeship to Christ, we must learn to set aside what John of the Cross calls our ‘swaddling clothes’ and come to God, not for certain spiritual feelings, highs, or insight, but merely for God Himself. In order for us to grow in this way, God allows the sense of His presence to lessen. From our vantage point, it seems as if He withdraws. It seems He’s sitting back and watching us struggle.” But here is what He is truly doing.
What we look at has a tendency to shape our thoughts, beliefs, and actions. And what we gaze upon will inevitably influence how we view the world, ourselves, and even God. This is why Jesus calls us to look at Him, to gaze on His beauty—to delight ourselves in His presence. If this is something you’d like to experience more of, here are 3 Daily Devotions on Facing God—my gift to you and anyone you feel led to share it with.
Before you go, I want to leave you with a quote from Charles Spurgeon, on how God moves to answer your prayers: “Unanswered petitions are not unheard. God keeps a file for our prayers—they are not blown away by the wind, they are treasured in the King’s archives. This is a registry in the court of heaven wherein every prayer is recorded. Tested believer, your Lord has a tear bottle in which the costly drops of sacred grief are put away, and a book in which your holy groanings are numbered. Before long, your suit shall prevail. Can’t you be content to wait a little while? Won’t your Lord’s time be better than yours? Before long He will comfortably appear, to your soul’s joy, and make you put away the sackcloth and ashes of lengthy waiting, and put on the scarlet and fine linen of full fruition.” → Read the full article by Courtney Reissig.
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