who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
2 but whose delight is in the law of the LORD,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.....
6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous,
(Psalm 1:1-3 and 6b)
The other day, I was praying with a friend and God showed us that we were hanging onto doing things ourselves instead of surrendering to God. It took me until today to figure out what he meant. We both feel weak and incapable and we want to succeed at what we set our hands to, so that we can prove to ourselves and those around us that we are not duds. God is asking us to give it up.
People have many standards for success and even if we are very successful in one area, we are failing somewhere else. There will always be limitations to our humanity and there will always be many critics to tell we are doing something wrong. This is not where God wants us to hang out. He is calling us to come up above. He is asking us to read his word, believe it, meditate on it and declare it and obey it. He wants to be our center and our standard for life. We may never succeed according to man's standards. We cannot use this as our measure of success. We are to hope in God, not our earthly accomplishments or man's opinion of us. What a relief! Life is looking pretty good from up here with God. Hallelujah!
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