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Be Somebody's Special Nobody
"I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me." Song of Solomon 7:10
Good Morning! God world remained undone until man was created. God was discontent with man in an unregenerate state. God is not willing that one perishes.
God thinks of us all the day. The prophet Zachariah says we touch the apple of His eye and the Psalmist said we ARE the apple of His eye. He loves us so much it cannot be defined in human terms.
He has sent a Son to die for us and a Spirit to work for us. Both the Son and the Spirit were from Him, of Him, by Him and for Him. He does not let us die for our sins and He will not let us work for our salvation.
Paul reminded us that we are His workmanship. Not His workers. The word workmanship means "manufactured product". We are His product that He is manufacturing. He uses many tools to "form us as He conforms us" into His image. We are His and His goal is for us to look just like His Son.
When we awake, we are on His mind. When we sleep He watches over us. When we run, He catches up. When we walk, He wants to be one step ahead, that we may not be weary. When we stand fast His work abounds for we are unmovable.
He is preparing His work within us. He prepares His work without us. He is preparing a place for us. He has prepared a table before us in the presence of our enemies and He is preparing THE table for us to join a great cloud of witnesses for a wonderful supper of Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. HE bids us all to come and dine. In other words, His preparation to receive us unto Himself has been going on for a long, long time, my friend. Yes, indeed, He is getting prepared for us to join Him-it may be today. RU Ready?
He is wondering what were thinking, so he ponders our heart. He is wondering our motives, so He tries our reigns (controls). He is wondering who weare following so He weighs our spirit.
He doesn't look on our countenance. He doesn't focus on our stature. He doesn't consider our comeliness. He doesn't look on the outward appearance. Thus, give yourself a much needed break and change your focus to inner beauty, perfected by that which is Perfect within you.
Once we have accepted His Son, He looks past our past, past our problems, past our personality, past our procrastination, past our perceptions because we are a part of His people.
He doesn't care about our possessions, for we ARE His possession. He is our Shepherd and we are the sheep of His pasture. He feeds us, He guides us, He protects us, He leads us, He nurses us and cares for us. That's not so BAAAAAAd, now is it?
He is everything to anybody who wants to be somebody to "a nobody" that they too may become Somebody's. And He will do this for EVERBODY. If we will remember just one thing: "your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost . . . and ye are not your own?"
We are not somebody who is "nobody special". We are Somebody's special nobody.
A PRAYER FOR TODAY: "Good morning Father, help me to realize my indentity in Christ is simple: my identity IS Christ. I ask that today you grant me the power in my inner man to follow through in every way you want to flow through. Please, empower me today with your Spirit of Wisdom. I pray these things in the blood stained name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen!"
A QUESTION FOR TODAY'S MEDITATION: "If thinking wrong precedes doing wrong and we do not want to do wrong, then why are we so willing to think wrong? Let's think about that!"
Have a wonderful day IN the Lord,
Steven Curington
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