Shepherd of my Soul, I Give You Full Control...Psalm 119:15-16

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”—Matt 11:28-30

Oh Father!  Help me today to come to You...not to me...not to distractions. To settle my mind and my heart and surrender to You and Your Plan. To really see me and know I need You!  Thank you that you are gentle and lowly.  Thank You that in You I can rest.  Your rule is easy and Your burden light. 

I will meditate on Your precepts,

And contemplate Your ways.

I will delight myself in Your statutes;

I will not forget Your word.—Psalm 119:15-16

Oh. Father!  Make this the desire of my own heart...to meditate, contemplate, delight and not forget Your word.  I want Your word to fill my heart and my life. This IS my desire,but it is the one that I have the most trouble doing consistently.  It is so hard for me to settle my mind to REMEMBER and then PURPOSE to think about Your word instead of the bazillion other things my mind gravitates toward.  Sometimes it feels like I am trying to reign in wild horses!  I liked what Boice said about meditation.  

"Meditation is recalling what we have committed to memory and then turning it over and over in our minds to see the fullest implications and applications of the truth." (Boice)

Lord...I will set aside time each day devoted to memorization and meditation.  I want Your word to be mine.  I have done this in the past and the results were  wonderful...even supernatural.  I could almost feel the “eureka” like explosions of understanding occurring in my synapses.  I think it scared me...like I was headed for something from which there was no return. Perhaps it brought me a piece of heaven that made me lose my grip “control” on the earth.  In reality I have no control here in the earthly realm.  Shepherd of my soul I give You full control.