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:
Seek True Wealth
Today I will consider “fictitious wealth” (Chambers): fictitious happiness, safety, power, and prestige, and realize where true wealth resides. Even in times of want and worry, times when external circumstances are hard, I will reside in God’s fountain of joy which is true wealth.
Carry this thought with you thoughout your day
“I’m out of creamer for my morning coffee. Life sucks.”
How easy it is to lose total perspective on life, a grip on reality. To assume that “all must be well (not all shall be well)” and that life’s problems—including the small, trivial ones—should not happen to me is the height of self-pity Yet, I sometimes catch myself with this knee-jerk reaction.
Oswald Chambers puts this into proper perspective (My Upmost for His Highest-May 16):
“Does it really matter that our circumstances are difficult? Why shouldn’t they be! If we give way to self–pity and indulge in the luxury of misery, we remove God’s riches from our lives and hinder others from entering into His provision. No sin is worse than the sin of self–pity, because it removes God from the throne of our lives, replacing Him with our own self–interests. It causes us to open our mouths only to complain, and we simply become spiritual sponges— always absorbing, never giving, and never being satisfied. And there is nothing lovely or generous about our lives.”
The psalmists knew real problems and their response was to pray, praise, and worship.