I need to gain some 'Wait'

My Utmost For His Highest

 

‘[…] The Spirit of God uses the nature of the believer as a temple in which to offer His prayers of intercession. “. . . your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit . . .” (1 Corinthians 6:19). When Jesus Christ cleansed the temple, “. . . He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple” (Mark 11:16). […] Have we come to realize that our “body is the temple of the Holy Spirit”? If so, we must be careful to keep it undefiled for Him. We have to remember that our conscious life, even though only a small part of our total person, is to be regarded by us as a “temple of the Holy Spirit.” He will be responsible for the unconscious part which we don’t know, but we must pay careful attention to and guard the conscious part for which we are responsible.’ CHAMBERS

 

Americans spend $40 billion dollars on diet plans and books every year.  It is an effort to improve health .. but it is really more than that .. it is our obsession to  improve our appearance.  We want to look good.

 

Jesus said … Matthew 23:24-26  ‘Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!  "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.  Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.’

 

The Pharisees were concerned about status in the community, how they looked to people. But they missed the point … they didn’t get the fact that to be right on the outside, you must be right on the inside, first.  We spend enormous amounts of money trying to look like we are not as old as we are … but a disproportionately small amount of our resources .. time and money .. on developing the inside.

 

Psalms 44:21  […]  He [God] knows the secrets of the heart.

 

God does not look at the outside of man .. that is how one man judges another … but He examines the heart .. the inside of the cup.  We cannot have right standing before God because we look good.  We can only be right before God is our hearts are right.

 

So what are you working on?  Trying to lose some weight, how about gaining some ‘wait’?  How about making your goal that you will read the Word every day and pray.

 

Isaiah 40:28-31  ‘Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.  He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength.  Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,  But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.’

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)