In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up… ISAIAH 6:1
Our soul’s personal history with GOD is often an account of the death of the ones we look to. Over and over again GOD has to remove our friends and loved ones from our lives to put HIMSELF in their place, and when that happens do I give up on everything in life? Do I become ill or disheartened? Or do I do as Isaiah did and see the LORD high and lifted up?
I don’t know the date but it was when I lived in a little trailer that one day I was reading in Psalms and came to: “Whom have I in heaven but YOU? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides YOU (Psalm 73:25 NKJV). And I said to GOD, “YOU know that is not true for me. YOU know that I want someone to love me. I hate the being alone and always feeling rejected. But YOU know I really do want those words in that Psalm to be true for me.”
Now, I really couldn’t tell you how long it was (months, years-I just don’t know) before it happened but one day I was back in Psalms and I came to the words, “Whom have I in heaven but YOU? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides YOU” and I realized that they were true for me. I had asked and GOD had changed my heart and it was so freeing.
My vision of GOD was dependent upon the condition of if I was willing to listen regardless if I like it or not and even let go of something I valued. My willingness to hear determined whether or not truth could even be revealed to me. Before I could say, “I saw the LORD,” I only saw from the perspective of my own biases, my wants. What I needed was GOD’s surgical procedure— HIS use of external circumstances to bring about internal purification. Things happen for me, not to me 2 Corinthians 4:15.
Your priorities must be GOD first, GOD second, and GOD third, until your life is continually face to face with GOD and no one else is taken into account whatsoever. Your prayer will then be, “Whom have I in heaven but YOU? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides YOU (Psalm 73:25 NKJV).
Once that happens GOD’s love flows through you to those around you. You love them more than ever before but GOD always comes 1st. HE helps you love others even when they tick you off and shows you little things to do for them and how to pray for them.
Are willing to paying the price to become more intimate with GOD, and hear HIS voice clearly?
Hugs
Sharon
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