The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
"Call Unto Me"
God desires to be known.
"Call unto Me and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not" (Jeremiah 33:3).
We do well to approach life with this awareness and sensibility. Our Lord calls to us, beckoning that we call to Him for His self revelation and the discovery of His doings in our hearts, lives, and the world.
"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God" (I Corinthians 2:12).
God gave Himself to us through the presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. He also gave accompanying gifts according to this measure…
"He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" (Romans 8:32).
The determination to live with expectation of God and His provision establishes our hearts and minds with the ongoing opportunity to behold "great and mighty things" of our Father and His doings. Lack of such anticipation constitutes disregard or disbelief of the Bible's plain and often stated declaration that our Father seeks to reveal Himself and His goodness. Of course, He determines the display of such blessedness according to His perfect wisdom, which may come to us through both the pleasant and the challenging. Our calling involves the chosen confidence that the illumination of God shines in both light and darkness. Certainly we will see our Lord in obvious blessing. However, the prophet declared "I will look for Him" not in happy, but in harrowing circumstances (Isaiah 8:17).
Let us look also, basing our confidence on God's great desire to reveal Himself and His doings. We may not perceive ourselves as particularly skilled in the seeing, which is definitely the case for all of us. Our Heavenly Father, however, is infinitely skilled in the revealing. He calls us to believe in both His willingness and ability to fill our spirits and our pathways with the light of the Lord Jesus. But a little faith in such grace, and the accompanying request to behold will illuminate both the center and circumference of our existence. Yes, in this day and this hour, the Spirit of God and the Word of beckon us from the Father and the Son, "Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."
"For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God."
(Ephesians 3:14-19)
Weekly Memory Verse
But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared.
(Psalm 130:4)
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