God Is For Me

August 26, 2014

God Is For Me

This I know, that God is for me.

Psalm 56:9b (NRSV)

Take a few moments and look at your calendar for today. Consider all the interactions you will have with family, friends, neighbors and co-workers. Now, purpose in your heart that before you engage in any contact with others, you will remember that God is for you! Listen for the voice of God speaking to you, reminding you to be at peace. Recall that God knows everything about you. He knows the stuff you call fear and failure, success and potential. You have God’s love and affection. No, you don’t deserve God’s love, and you can’t pay for it either. God chooses to love you. He created and redeemed you, and He doesn’t, not even for one second, have buyer’s remorse! Open your heart and mind and receive the seemingly incomprehensible love of God for you. Let this truth permeate deep within your consciousness and let it guide you throughout this day.

“Pray without ceasing” is the counsel Saint Paul gave his friends in Thessalonica. (1 Thessalonians 5:17) Have you ever wondered how to do that? You can! Just remember, it is possible to do by training what is impossible to do by trying. Purpose in your heart to keep your mind focused throughout the day on God’s love for you, and you will be praying without ceasing. Another training exercise is remembering Psalm 119:14 before you go into a meeting: “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.” If you keep this psalm in the forefront of your mind and you will be praying without ceasing, and if you will allow God’s unfailing love for you to inform the words of your mouth and the meditations of your heart, I guarantee your words and meditations will be pleasing unto Him.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188.