It’s so easy to get caught up isn’t it?
Today’s world, today’s problems, today’s…. everything. And don’t even mention how we dwell in the tomorrows that aren’t even here yet. We get caught up in the media, or social media, our jobs, finances, your kid’s senior year (yeah, it’s me – that’s me), the list goes on.
Oh, and our circumstances, our sufferings…. Oof! – not the “sufferings”?! Are we going to deal with all the crazies of that list? Yes. Are we going to suffer? Yes! (As my pastor Bro. Scott so graciously reminded me last Sunday 😬).
“But rejoice in as much as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.” 1 Peter 4:13
But, in our humanness we get caught up and dwell in those sufferings don’t we? The circumstances, the small stuff even. And, then there’s the reminder from my husband (just this week lol) – in all his wisdom 😉, “Don’t sweat the small stuff”. LOL. Because, he knows me, and he knows I will so go there.
Guys, God tells us over and over- don’t sweat ANY OF IT! Don’t get caught up in anything but His presence! Psalm 27:4 King David “…… it is what I desire, to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life…”
God wants us to choose today and all the tomorrows to DESIRE to dwell in His presence. To quit getting caught up in the mess, and the stuff that tries to drown you out.
Seek Him daily, making all things that obscure our view of God flee! The anxiety and fears that try to choke us out are the fears that were conquered on the cross! The battles, the sufferings- all conquered on the cross!
Y’all! …. Be caught up with Him! In His presence- at His feet – in His perfect holiness.
When we choose to go to that place with HIM – dwelling in His house – gazing at his beauty, seeking HIM, we won’t want to leave ❤️.
*fun fact – to “gaze” is to look STEADILY, INTENTLY, especially in ADMIRATION, or thought!
THERE – it’s THERE that I want my desire to be! So intently, in admiration, steadily, not taking my eyes off of Him. In all His glory, in His presence – dwelling … THERE! To never want to leave and to be so enveloped in my Savior that I can’t be caught up in anything else!
“I have asked one thing from the LORD; it is what I desire, to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, gazing on the beauty of the LORD and seeking Him in his temple.” Psalm 27:4
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