Today’s Devotional Written By A Young Lady God has: Tracy Koweh
I Got "God" Babe
Ephesians 2:12-13 (New Living Translation)12 In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope. 13 But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ.
Today's message in the music comes from Sonny and Cher's hit song "I Got You Babe". The chorus of the song says: I got you to hold my hand. I got you to understand.
I got you to walk with me. I got you to talk with me. I got you to kiss goodnight. I got you to hold me tight. I got you, I won't let go. I got you to love me so.
So many years I wasted looking for this in another person that I made a lot of unsuccessful bad decisions trying to find it. As a female my first mistake was that I was doing the looking, and not allowing myself to be found. The second was that I wasn't spending enough time looking at myself and how I lined up with the Word of God. So many times in life we hook up and connect to the wrong person and then want God to fix them and the relationship. We can not connect to any person, kingdom or otherwise, until we truly get connected to Jehovah.
If we are not connected we may get to some sanctuary some where, maybe twice a week, but when we are connected we are a sanctuary that Jehovah visits on a daily basis. When we are not connected it means we give an offering, if we have just gotten paid, or if we are paying our tithes after all the bills are taken care of, but we should be connected to the point that our tithes comes off the top, no questions, no doubts, no hesitations. When we are not connection based on bumper stickers, slogan t-shirts, or fancy Bible covers, but a connection is when we lack showing a reaction when we are bumped the wrong way, tempted to take off our shirt before marriage, and what we do with the words within the covers of “The Book.” In life we ruin ourselves, a good man or woman of God, and our kingdom witness, because we have not fell in love with God Almighty FIRST. The Bible says to “seek first the kingdom of Heaven and everything else will be added unto to you”.....that includes a best friend, a partner, and a spouse, but they all come second to the Father.
Like I said earlier it took me awhile to get to a place where I could say God, for you I live and for you I die, and really mean it. To have enough self-esteem and self-worth in myself to say that with or without a man I'm never alone cause my God is always with me and He will supply every last one of my needs, and that covers emotional, spiritual, physical, mental and psychological. God is not against earthly relationships, but He is upset with the position and priority level we are giving them. Some of us can't praise God, because we are miserable in the relationships we have allowed ourselves to become connected too, or because God has not allowed us to be connected to anyone yet. We need to stop wasting time searching and start using it to seek out Christ. The rest will fall into place if we just trust Him and wait on Him.
Today let us ponder on the words of the song and replace the word you with God: I got God to hold my hand. I got God to understand. I got God to walk with me. I got God to talk with me. I got God to kiss goodnight. I got God to hold me tight. I got God, I won't let go. I got God to love me so. If you let Him He will be all these things and more to and for YOU. I am very blessed to have been found by the one God has chosen for me at this point in my life, but no matter how much love he gives me, he can and never will be able to love me like Jehovah. Connect to the one who made it possible to connect back to God, and watch your relationships in life catapult to a new dimension. It’s time to plug in and get CONNECTED.
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