I should not be surprised when my prayers are answered. In fact, I am quite ashamed at my astonishment when God does move mightily in some circumstance about which I have petitioned Him.
In recent days, I have begun praying with increased earnest that God will fill me with His Spirit and that He will meet with me that I may enjoy Him and grow in Him. Not too many days after I had taken up this prayer in renewed intensity, God gave me the blessing of a true sense of connection with Him. Over my short life to this point, I can recall specific moments when God has made His love and grace and very presence known to me in moments of great significance.
My faith does not lean on those special moments of subjective experience for assurance or solid footing. No, my faith rests in the finished work of Jesus Christ my redeemer and Lord. Rather, these moments of connections with the sovereign God serve as great impulses of joy and reminders that I serve a personal and near God.
I find that when I am faithful and intently pursue God, then God is eager to meet with me and make Himself known to me! This is a wonderful truth! Who am I that God would care to reveal Himself to me?! Yet He does! How wonderfully merciful and gracious is my God!
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