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Morning Verse for March 6, 2024 | Words to Live By
Tag: looking to God
Daily
“Give us this day our daily bread.” Matthew 6:11
The soul must recognize, and the heart acknowledge, there is not a day that goes by when we don’t need the holy provisions that come from on high. The hope, joy, and peace of heaven – every good, and every perfect gift from above – all of it we need daily to feed this spiritual life (James 1:17).
You, O God, are the one true source of all. To look anywhere else to nourish our souls for these times would be a futile pursuit. It is in You that we find the freedom we so long for. It is before You, we lay our cares, our thoughts, our burdens at Your holy feet.
Whatever we place there may feel like a lot to us, but it is never too much for You. So, daily You invite us to come, ask, seek, knock, and believe in faith (Matthew 7:7-8).
Today, and every day, we know that we need You. You, who were the manna in the wilderness, are the daily, living bread we need for this life right now (John 6:47-51). As a man starved in appetite, let us look to You for our heavenly sustenance (Matthew 5:6). You are the hope we lean upon, daily.
Friend, go to Him, daily.
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Where the Answer Is Found
Questions, we all have them. But where do we go for the answers?
When Daniel went before King Nebuchadnezzar to interpret his dream, he admitted his own human frailty, that he didn’t have the answer within himself. He said, “This secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living,” (Daniel 2:30). He did not consider himself anything special just because he could interpret dreams, instead he gave glory to God, and said, “Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever” (Daniel 2:20a), and then directed those in attendance to where the answer is truly found: “for wisdom and might are his,” Daniel said, speaking of the one and only true living God (2:20b; emphasis added).
Friends, are you struggling to try and figure it out? The answer to anything we need is found in God. In the Bible and throughout this life, we have seen many that rely on multiple things to provide the answer to their life struggles or for direction. Some have turned to idols, other people, or even themselves for the solutions to the help they need.
All those attempts are futile when we consider Psalm 46:1 gives this promise to us that “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
Proverbs also encourage us to “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths” (Proverbs 3:5-6).
Job, through the hardest times of life, gives us this testimony: “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. . .” (Job 13:15). In his foundation of faith, he may not have understood everything he was going through, but he understood that there was no greater help than the help that is found in God, who, “With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding” (Job 12:13). There is no other answer; there is no other trust for him and us to lean upon.
Where are you looking for answers today? I encourage you to look to God, for He is where your answers can be found. Keep coming to Him, and don’t stop!
Come to Him in prayer, and seek His face.
Come to Him through His Word, and learn what He has to say.
Come to Him with a heart opened and ready to receive His divine truths for your life.
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Where to Look!
In those times when you don’t know what to do or who to turn to for help, look unto the LORD. He will be your perfect guide, strength, and help.
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Limited and Locked In?
“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” Colossians 3:2
Could it be that this verse is explaining the anxiousness and trouble many are feeling? Could it be that what we are constantly seeing, the thoughts and images of this world, have infiltrated us so that they hover as a dark cloud, obstructing our view of what matters most?
Some days it is hard to look past the here and now. Our senses are constantly blasted by reality before us. Our eyes see it. Our ears hear it, and every other sense within us picks up on it. The world around us is infiltrated with the world around us (and yes, that was said on purpose).
When we fail to look up beyond this world, we keep ourselves limited and locked within the sphere of all that this mess is. If all we see is what our physical eyes behold, and if all we hear is the noise of the negativity all around, then we are bound to be bound by the cares of this world (Mark 4:19).
Throughout Scripture, we are constantly encouraged to raise our sights higher. When we “set our affection on things above, not on the things on the earth,” our perspective and outlook on life will shift. Having our view freed from the constraints of the current tide of events releases us to not only see more, but to see better all God has for His people.
“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.” Psalm 121:1-2
“O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.” 2 Chronicles 20:12
“Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.” Psalm 123:1
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Praying . . . 5/20/22
God, we as Your people stand before You today both as hopeless, and yet as being full of hope. If it is to ourselves we look for strength and resources then we are a hopeless bunch because there is no good thing in us. But, if it is You and Your mercy we are leaning on then our lives have nothing but hope because You, Lord, are the Author of all that can be and when we are trusting in You, we have the possibility of everything before us. Help us this day to keep looking to You where we can find hope, and not to ourselves. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray, AMEN!
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At the Throne
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning” (James 1:17). Everything we need flows from that throne in heaven.
Where has your heart been searching? The attempts are futile that send you anywhere else but His holy throne.
Is this why you are frustrated with life? Is this why the pieces don’t seem to mesh?
For strength, where have you looked? For help, who have you relied upon?
These daily graces are best found in He who is able to pour out into your life freely and with heavenly abundance.
Whatever you need. The answer can be found at the throne of God. “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16).
As a compass points us in the right direction of home, may our hearts turn and find solace at the foot of Your throne.
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