ME-ssentials – AMAZED! – Day Thirteen
ESSENTIALS for Me to Be: AMAZED
September 13th, 2021
What’s your ESSENTIAL?
Essential: absolutely necessary; indispensable; the essence of a thing; inherent and intrinsic, vital
Psalm 18:19-24, ‘He stood me in a wide-open field; I stood there saved—surprised to be loved! God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before Him. When I got my act together, He gave me a fresh start. Now I’m alert to God’s ways; I don’t take God for granted. Every day I review the ways He works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together; and I’m watching my step. God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to His eyes.’ (MSG)
I stand here utterly amazed at what God designed for me. I missed it for so long. I have wandered all my life, made my own choices, called my own shots, devised plans, sought for meaning to life, attempted to make my own purpose; getting lost in many empty vessels, drinking but still thirsting, eating but still starving, filled yet hollow, seen but obscure. All the while, He was patiently waiting for me to be still and cease striving.
It made sense when I finally stopped. Not at first but eventually. I think sometimes we must catch up with ourselves. We must look in the rearview mirror and see it all culminating behind us to realize where we have been and where we are headed if we don’t stop, or crash, in some cases. There is a clarity I have been given; I can see clearly now. I wonder why I didn’t see it before, but I have come to believe, my eyes, my heart, was shuttered. And perhaps I didn’t want to admit what a collision course I was on.
I am amazed at all He has done for me. I am the ‘1’; the ‘1’ He left the other ‘99’ for so He could come to find me where I had wandered to bring me home. He pursued me with great intentionality; He wooed me with an extravagant and costly courtship; He drew me in the ink of an everlasting love painted on a canvas of His amazing grace, with loving-kindness which led to my repentance and His promised forgiveness, the one He died for, so I could live. He is an amazing God, and I am amazed—and so very grateful—He saw me.
