What do you believe your main purpose is in life? What is your deepest yearning? What treasure do you seek? What honors do you seek?
My Beloved Ones of God, your main purpose in life is to know God and to have an eternal fellowship with Him. God can be the only one that can satisfy those deep yearnings. Your treasures are found in God by walking with Him and glorifying Him. He brings peace and joy throughout the day just by walking with Him. To see Him work through circumstances beyond your solutions brings peace instead of fear. Then at the end of the day, you and I can give Him praise and rest peacefully under the protective eye until He wants us to come home.
Last night was our BSF Bible Study Zoom meeting. We are an elderly group who cannot attend a live meeting and study. We are a close group and I believe we love each.
We are studying Revelation. On the fourth day last week, we were to read Revelation 4: 6b-8. On 11b question, they had us look at other scriptures which were I Chronicles 29:11-13; Romans 12:1-2 and Colossians 3:16-17. Our whole lesson covered Revelation 4:1-11. Many of us were touched by the scripture. When I read I Chronicles 29:11-13, I began sobbing. I have read these scriptures many times before, but I have not been praying that deeply of late. It has not always been with all my heart, mind, soul, and spirit. When you read the following words and pray them to the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, what do you feel and do?
“Thine, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is Thine is the dominion, O LORD, and the heavens and the earth; Thine is the dominion, O LORD, and Thou dost exalt Thyself as head over all. Both in riches and honor come from Thee, and Thou dost rule over all, and in Thy hand is power and might; and it lies in Thy hand to make great, and to strengthen everyone.
Now therefore, our God, we thank Thee, and praise Thy glorious name.
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
I have prayed the above so many times as a promise. Even as a question with the word when added to it. You see, my whole body stays in pain. Well, maybe not my entire face and a few other places, but most of the body. The pain level is from one to twelve on a pain scale of 1 to 10. That is a roller coaster ride in different areas all at the same time. I can not walk very far until the pain takes over. But that is just my life. I will not stop loving God.
The above Isaiah passage is answered in my life amongst all this pain. How? When I pray, God’s divine presence fills me. He renews the strength of my soul which overflows to my body. I still hurt but I can endure the pain and find rest for all that I am. My soul mounts up with wings as eagles. God’s Spirit is not only within me but engulfs me. While engulfed you feel as though you are walking on air. You feel so light and peaceful. That happens when God has your body, mind, and spirit.
