Men and women don’t live very long like wildflowers they spring up and blossom, But a storm snuffs them out just as quickly, leaving nothing to show they were here. He knows us inside and out, keeps in mind that we’re made of mud. As parents feel for their children, God feels for those who fear him. And as far as sunrise is from sunset, he has separated us from our sins. As high as heaven is over the earth, so strong is his love to those who fear him. He doesn’t treat us as our sins deserve, nor pay us back in full for our wrongs. ![]() He doesn’t endlessly nag and scold, nor hold grudges forever. God is sheer mercy and grace not easily angered, he’s rich in love. He showed Moses how he went about his work, opened up his plans to all Israel. ![]() Psalms 103:12-18 “God makes everything come out right he puts victims back on their feet. We are ashamed to allow a Holy God into such places, but it is only in allowing the Spirit of God to shine the light in those place will we ever be able to worship Him in spirit in truth.īy holding on to guilt, shame and fears the prison doors remain shut, preventing the Holy Spirit from bringing the healing balm of Jesus.ġ John 1: 17 “But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.” (NLT) I believe this is the reason so many of us try to keep God out of those dark places in us because we know how dirty and filthy some things in our past are. Due to the purity of God’s presence, the man of God could do nothing else but see the filthiness of his being. The Prophet Isaiah received a great gift, the ability to see our God in his Holy temple. 24 Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.” (NLT) Psalm 139:23-24 “Search me, O God, and know my heart test me and know my anxious thoughts. I encourage you to read the entire chapter it is very inspiring. He acknowledges that God knows everything about him yet, nothing makes God turn his head away in disgust. The writer expresses his inability to get away from an omnipotent, omnipresent God. Some people believe that if God saw everything, He would not want them.īeloved child of God, He does see all and He yet loves you. The very idea of opening oneself and allowing a Holy God see the good, bad and ugly in us is very intimidating. Only those who experienced hard knocks through life, exhausted all avenues of trying to be good and have come to the end of self can lose them in this song of worship. Only radical, true worshippers can throw their heads back, lift their arms towards the Lord and sing this song of intimacy to a Holy and Awesome God. William McDowell sings a song, “Withholding Nothing.” This song should be the anthem of every believer.
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