The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe
"Acknowledge Him"
"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).
As considered in the last few days, the calling to acknowledge the Lord in all our ways presents ongoing opportunity and challenge to born again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.
First, we rejoice that Someone exists who can be trusted with all our hearts and acknowledged in all our ways. Only of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus can this be said. He alone is perfectly trustworthy in both willingness and ability to be everything we need Him to be. He alone abides as present and actively involved along every pathway of our lives. Such blessed truth assures us that our God graces every aspect of our existence with His loving and active engagement. He can be acknowledged in all our ways because He is present in all our ways. "I will be with thee… I am with you always" (Isaiah 43:2; Matthew 28:20).
The challenge of such truth involves remembering, affirming, and applying our hearts to it. This begins with the general acceptance of the Biblical doctrine and teaching of God's present and active involvement in every aspect of our lives. "I will dwell in them and walk in them" (II Corinthians 6:16). We then realize that such trust enlists us into the fight of our lives, namely, "the good fight of faith" (I Timothy 6:12). Our spiritual enemies do all they can to distract, deceive, and discourage us from the remembrance that we do not live our lives alone. God gave us Himself when we trusted the Lord Jesus. His Spirit came to indwell and forever serve as the Life of our lives in all things. He lives in us, we live through Him, and the more we affirm the reality and power of such truth, the more we will experience the assurance of His presence and working. It will not, however, come easy. In this present life, there will ever be a fight to acknowledge the Lord in all our ways, a "good fight."
We do well to frequently ask our Heavenly Father if there is any particular way in which we are not seeing and trusting Him. The Lord Jesus gave Himself to the cross of Calvary so that He might give Himself to our hearts and to our pathways. Whether we realize it or not, He is there in all. He is our provision, our protection, and our power in every aspect of our lives. Acknowledging Him means we realize and affirm the truth. We do not make His presence and working true by our faith. The truth is true. His presence is present. Our response of faith means that we consciously experience the reality in which "we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28). We open the eyes of our hearts to see our Lord's heart nearer than our next breath and vibrantly active on our behalf. This "good gift" He has given, as known when we wage the "good fight"whereby we seek to "in all thy ways acknowledge Him" (James 1:17). This includes the particulars of our lives that presently provide opportunity to "trust the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him." May the Lord open our eyes to see, even as Elisha's servant beheld a fight that initially seemed hopeless, but which turned out to be good indeed...
"And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! How shall we do? And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha."
(II Kings 6:15-17)
Weekly Memory Verse
Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
(Philippians 1:6)
(Philippians 1:6)
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