Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day (Thursday 05/12/2011)

How Are You Coming At Me?

Psalm 119:169-171 (Amplified Bible)

¹⁶⁹Let my mournful cry and supplication come [near] before You, O Lord; give me understanding (discernment and comprehension) according to Your word [of assurance and promise]. ¹⁷⁰Let my supplication come before You; deliver me according to Your word! ¹⁷¹My lips shall pour forth praise [with thanksgiving and renewed trust] when You teach me Your statutes.

            Every time my daughter begins to plan one of her monster extravaganzas, like her Sweet 16, Her 18^th and now her graduation party, her attitude begins to shift…My daughter is usually one of the most mild of kids, or young adults and she is giving , loving and for the most part cooperative, but when she starts talking and party planning, she almost becomes possessed and I have to shift our normally laid back relationship to a relationship that is forced to place her in check and to remind her of certain things she acts as if she feel down and bumped her head and now has amnesia over.  Normally she will approach me with such love, thoughtfulness and care, minus attitude and pretense, but not when a party is involved.  The way she approaches definitely dictates how I respond.

            Isn’t it funny that my daughter in the party posture is a direct representation of us with God.  When we want what we want, and we get possessed with it and we get focused on what we want and God is not moving quick enough, we will come at Him, kind of stank and with much attitude. We want to mandate and dictate to God what he does for us and how He should be doing it and how quickly He should get it done.  We get so full of ourselves that we think it is okay that we approach Him any old kind of way, forgetting who He is and the position that He holds.  We come at Him with the stench of sin, disobedience, arrogance and self-righteousness all over us and then we want Him to move and make it right for us.  We want Him to bail us out of messes we created and to keep blessing us in spite of how we act, what we say and what we do, and how we approach Him…We are something sometimes…So full of ourselves that we treat our creator as if He were the one created just to serve us.

            There is a saying that our attitude dictates our altitude, it also dictates whether or not we receive or not or even if we are in good standing with the maker of the universe.  We can’t just decide to come to God in any posture, thinking it is all good and that we will receive His very best and Blessings will be abundant.  We have such a sense of entitlement, that everyone owes us no matter how we act, that no matter how we act our situation should be attended to and our whims adhered to, but this could not be further from the truth…We owe “us” to God, but not just any us; We owe Him the best of us, we owe Him a level of love and respect that is far above anyone else’s.  So remember how we come will dictate how we leave.  If we are leaving as broke, busted and disgusted as we came, or will we leave healed, whole, saved and delivered.  The choice is in our approach!