Awaken to God’s Love
Lord, You are my God, my savior, my all. Deserving nothing and having nothing but myself to offer, I humbly come before you asking only to be awakened to your loving kindness this day.
Awaken to God’s love with this commitment to action:
See My Conscience As A Gift
Today I will look at my conscience from a new, positive perspective; not the condemning voice of God but a divine gift into the mind of God that directs me to what is good, right, and pleasing to God-and equally to my neighbor-and away from what is wrong, hurtful, and destructive to my...
Carry this thought with you thoughout your day
Search Me That I May Embrace Your Blessings
If we seek to lead a blessed life—the life God desires for us—then we must know the pathway to these blessings and what obstacles prevent us from discovering the pathway. Often, perhaps always, it is we ourselves that are the primary obstacle and this is a result of a fractured relationship with God. How do we patch this relationship and return to a wholesome, right relationship?
Both Rick Warren and Oswald Chambers point to our conscience as the means. Warren asks if we are prepared to shine the spotlight on all that is wrong with our relationship with God, with others, and with ourself. Are we willing to be totally honest, to lay naked all that is wrong and ask God to fix it? Pray Psalm 139:23-24: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.” Nothing less than everlasting life awaits.
Chambers employs the conscience to steadily face God, to the end that it introduces God’s perfect law into our lives and dictates what we should do. If we accept that the conscience is informed by the law of God written on the heart, then it is the perfect tool for testing. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts.” Jeremiah 31:33.
“You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.” Psalm 139:1. God has searched us; we cannot flee from Him. He knows our thoughts before we think them. Let us use the gift of conscience to lead us to all of God’s blessings.
