March 17 – Today mediate on: God Is My Redeemer

He Crowns Me

Psalm 103:4, “Who redeems your life from the pit and corruption; Who beautifies, dignifies and crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercies.”

“Prayer Requires Patience:

“God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to

discern the mind of God, and that is declared in John 17, ‘That they maybe one,

as We are.’ Am I as close to Jesus as that? God will not leave me alone until

I am. God has one prayer He must answer, and that is the prayer of

Jesus Christ.  It does not matter how imperfect or immature a disciple may be,

if he will hang in, that prayer will be answered.

“Do all my prayers have a single purpose: ‘that we may be one?’”

—Oswald Chambers

From Streams in the Desert, May 2: “My child,’ He said, ‘your only safety is, in everything, to love and trust and praise.” –Mark Guy Pearse.

This quote was the last line of a story where a person felt they could do a better job of controlling the weather than God could. God laid the keys of the four winds in their hand. At the last minute, the person realized: “‘What am I doing? I cried; ‘who knows what mischief I may bring about? How do I know what the fields want? Ten thousand things of ill may come of this foolish wish of mine.’” The person prayed and asked God to send His angel to take back the key, and promised not to ask for it again. “But lo, the Lord Himself stood by me. He reached His hand to take the key; and as I laid it down, I saw that it rested against the sacred wound-print. It hurt me indeed that I could ever have murmured against anything wrought by Him who bare such sacred tokens of His love.”

The Lord hung the key of His belt where all the keys hung of the person’s life. The Lord said, “Did you not know, My child, that My kingdom ruleth over all?” “‘Over all, my Lord! I answered; ‘then it is not safe for me to murmur at anything.’ Then did He lay His hand upon me tenderly, ‘My child,’ He said, ‘your only safety is, in everything, to love and trust and praise.’”

As an artist chisels away on the rough natural untouched marble with his tools, and by his selective blows will bring forth the inner hidden beautiful figure, so God ever works on us to bring out His likeness in us. God “prunes off” the bad habits, thoughts, attitudes, etc. The pruning shears are painful at the time, but it is only for our highest good. Romans 8:28; Lam. 3:28. He smoothes out the roughness of our character that is not like His.

When the way seems dark, and we don’t understand all that is going on in our lives, that is where faith says, Romans 8:28; Lam. 3:28…”Faith looks deeper and says, ‘This is God’s secret. You look only on the outside; I can look deeper and see the hidden meaning.” (NS)

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