ALWAYS BEFORE HIM...

I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.  Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices.  My flesh also will rest in hope.--Psalm16:8-9

To My Beautiful Daughters in Him,

These two verses are so beautiful and instructive.  My God tells me in Psalm 139 that He knows everything about me.  My rising up, my sitting down, my path, my words, my ways...and even my thought afar off. My God knows it all.  He created me...He hedges me behind and before and has laid His hand upon me.  I am never alone...I am always with Him.  He never leaves me nor forsakes me.  Are you getting where I am headed. I AM ALWAYS BEFORE HIM.  He has inscribed me on the palms of His hands.  My "walls" are continually before Him!

Because of this...Because of the great love He has for me...Because I am continually before Him and His thoughts toward me are precious and cannot be counted, I WANT TO SET HIM BEFORE ME ALWAYS. I want my heart and my mind so saturated with my God that my every waking moment is interpreted and referenced in His light.   Look at the reward...therefore my heart is glad, my glory rejoices and my flesh can rest in hope!  Setting Him before me will bring me great joy and peace. Why?  Because instead of seeing all that happens to me through the filter of "Jean" and how it affects "Jean" I see it through the lenses of my God.  My view is now filtered through the divine.  My heart and mind are now in the heavenlies focuses on those things that are above and eternal...the things that you know...last.  I will then react differently to each and every situation I face because I will not be looking at it in my flesh but in my spirit.  I can then handle whatever this life may throw at me because it is not about me...it is not mine to handle...it is God's.  My life is not about me...what happens to me is not about me...it is ALWAYS about Him.  I died and my life has been hidden with Christ in God.  I live for Him...I live to do His will and glorify Him.  To put it practically when someone hurts "my" feelings...it is not me they are hurting then it is Christ. My reaction will be to see it only as an opportunity to glorify my God. The me, myself and I...the trinity of stupidity...as Pastor Lloyd Pulley calls it, has been removed from the equation and oh what peace that brings.  My heart can rejoice and be glad...My God is in charge and control.  His will for me is from His heart of love.  I am His beloved...I am always before Him.  He cares for me.  Come magnify the Lord with me!  

I will bless the Lord at all times;
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul shall make its boast in the Lord;
The humble shall hear of it and be glad.
Oh, magnify the Lord with me,
And let us exalt His name together.

I sought the Lord, and He heard me,
And delivered me from all my fears.
They looked to Him and were radiant,
And their faces were not ashamed.

Psalm 34:1-5