Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Looking For Direction
The question can be asked by us as believers, what are we to be doing? This is not a general question, but a more specific question about details in our every day life. Yesterday I was speaking with a friend and fellow believer and I told him how easy it is to get caught up in the business of life, especially as God grows and blesses the work of our hands. I also said I did not want to fall in to the trap that is easy for me where I focus on that business and not on God. Our heavenly Father is doing and saying things in keeping with the creation that He made and belongs to Him, and with His plan.
John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
This is one area where I am trying to learn really hard to be more like Jesus. I want to be able to see what the Father is doing and do that. I want to be able to hear what the Father is saying and say that. This also fits in with something in one of the Psalms.
Psalms 123:1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
Here the psalmist is saying he is looking to God just like a servant looks to their boss’s hands for direction. We are to be looking for our Father to show us what He is doing, and then do that here. He will direct our paths to the things that can benefit us, to the things that can help us move farther down the road toward the kingdom on the earth. It is God’s plan to one day restore all things.
If we watch to see what God is doing, we can play a part in His plan and live in His promises.
Prayer
Father, we praise and thank You for being our God and King. Please show us what You are doing in each of our environments so we can do what You are doing. We want to walk in Your ways and live the life You have for us. Please send to us today the healing, the deliverance, and the provision we need. You are all we have Father. You are the only one that can save us from the proud. Please lift us up today. In Jesus’ (Yeshua’s) name. Amen.