January 13
Psalms 119:17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
Oh, for the beauty and integrity of a life that is dependant on God and God alone.
The word ‘dependant’ has a bad connotation today. Someone who is ‘dependant’ is assumed weak, incomplete, insufficient, needy, restricted in movement, curbed in personal freedom, with a ‘cramped’ ‘style’. Have we forgotten that life itself comes from the bounty of its executor? He, and He only gives us the dependency that gives life, liberates and strengthens.
A new Christian asked me once how is it that by submitting to God instead of to our own wishes and wants, we find freedom. The concept of being free through submission sounded contradictory to her. I just had to explain to her that because God is so much bigger and powerful than we are, that we by comparison are very small and limited, so by yielding to Him instead of ourselves, we take part of His divine nature, and obtain the freedom a life on a bigger or spiritual plane offers; a life beyond the narrow confines of our limited human nature.
Yes, Lord, do deal bountifully with us. Our lives depend upon it. Incline your heart to our poor and weak human nature. Understand that when in abundance we are tempted to forget You, and that when in lack we are tempted to curse You. So please, deal with us mercifully that we may live and keep Your Word; that we may praise you forever.
(2 Peter 1:4) Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
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