Another morning, another cup of coffee, and another blessing shown of God’s hand in my life.
When I say blessing, I don’t mean riches or stuff or things. The blessing I am referring to is wisdom.
I recently received my EMT-B certification and have been blessed to fill in for Grant County EMS when I am able. During the education portion of the certification we learned about the human body and how intricately it is woven together. Its amazing to see how one system supplies or feeds another and how they all work together. The 2 pieces of the human body that remain a mystery to me are the heart and mind. Both are fed by many systems, but it is the electrical system in each that get me. It’s like they are just there, running some of the most important functions of our body out of neurons, nodes, and synapses without explanation beyond the cellular level. Yet there it all is, functioning together like a well oiled machine.
And to think that God willed that into existence, that He willed you and I into existence.
Think about that for a moment. You would not be if it was not willed. God made you because he wanted you. It blows my mind.
Revelation 4 says “…and by Your will they existed and were created.” All of us, all of creation, was build out of God’s will. His want.
How can we (I) not humble ourselves (myself) in this? To know that when I hit my knees to talk to God, it is out of His sheer will that I exist. And yet i choose to pray for selfish things that lead to nothing. When instead praying in accordance with His will offers me everything.
I have to let go of the me to receive the perfect and complete joy of the Him.
In the past decade, God has changed my life in insurmountable ways. He has humbled me, taught me to listen, answered prayers, and changed and blessed my marriage.
In the past I had always perceived God’s will for my life to be “stuff.” I was SO wrong! God’s will for my life is to love others as He has loved me. And because He willed me into existence, I need to listen to what His will is for my life. I better go where He leads. In Jeremiah we are told that God has a plan for our life, to give us a future and hope. We hold onto that in such a cliched way! God goes on to tell us that when we seek Him with all our heart we will find Him. These two versus go hand in hand! We cannot know what God fully has for us if we do not fully seek Him. We cannot hang onto our own will and expect God to bless it.
How? How do we let go of our own finite will to grasp what God has for us? We must listen more than we request. We must ask God to “show us” and “tell us” rather than to ask God to “give me.”
When we operate in the will of self, we will be left unfulfilled.
But when we choose to stand in awe of the God that willed us into existence and then choose to listen, our own will for our life will change.
feed yourself, girl 