Corona Devo 50
God is holy. And He has a plan and purpose in everything He does.
From the creation of the world--He had a plan and a purpose for each thing, and it was good. Here's just one example--
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good... ~Genesis 1:3-4
God's holiness and His plans still resonate in each new day that we experience. The embarrassing truth (for me), is that in my day to day, I have forgotten (brushed over/pushed past) His holiness.
Sure, I love the Lord. I think of God here and there, and I pray, and I read His word, but if I am honest, the reality of His holiness and His plan for me, for you, for Corona, for tomorrow --has been muted.
It's like getting a new bike (when you are young) or a new car--when you first receive it, you can't get over it. But as time passes, the newness wears off, and so does your appreciation of it.
I realized/remembered today when reading The Bible that WE CAN'T DO THAT WITH GOD! He is HOLY.
I was reading in the Book of Ezekiel (one of God's prophets), and God gave Ezekiel had a vision of a temple. God was so specific in telling Ezekiel the measurements of the height and depth of each alcove, courtyard, wall. Seriously, it repeats the heights, widths, lengths of wall after wall....for example:
Here, too, there were three guard alcoves on each side, with dividing walls and an entry room. All the measurements matched those of the east gateway. The gateway passage was 87 1⁄2 feet long and 43 3⁄4 feet wide between the back walls of facing guard alcoves. ~Ezekiel 40:21
What does this have to do with us, with our lives, and with getting through the Corona isolation?
Never forget that God has a plan for each of us. It is specific, and it is tailored to you and to me, each plan crafted specifically and intimately to the heighth and width of us and our lives.
Just as He created a narwhal (type of whale) to have a horn/tusk sticking out of its head to break through arctic ice in the water (so that it can get air to breathe), He made us special, and our features (inside and out) are tailor-made by the Master Tailor. We are hand-crafted. God had a specific plan with each of us.
That is my (simple) Old-Testament correlation between God's details mattering and having importance, whether in the measurements of a temple-vision or in the unique features that we each possess. You are special and He made you for a reason!
But beyond the measurements, I think the bigger picture that the Lord pressed on my heart through Ezekiel was that He is holy.
So the area was 875 feet on each side with a wall all around it to separate what was holy from what was common. ~Ezekiel 42:20
We are common.
God is holy.
We have to have a (holy) fear of the Lord and His ways and His will for us. Not a "scared" fear, but a sense of reverence, of appreciation. An acknowledgement in our spirit and our lives that He is holy!
In the temple there was a wall between the holy area and the common area, and there was a reason for that wall. The people could not just walk into the holy area. It was holy! Only priests could be in there, and only during special times.
But that was in the Old Testament.
God is still holy. He shall be forevermore.
But then God gave His Son to be the door leading through our common wall into the Holy area that IS God's presence.
We can approach God through Jesus, and that was also His perfect plan from the beginning of creation.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ~John 14:6
It may sound like a contradiction, but I truly felt like the Lord was reminding me that we have access to Him through Jesus, but that we must never forget the holiness of God.
We have to accept that we won't figure everything out. We just won't understand a lot of what happens here on earth. Death, sorrow, hardship. Even success--there is often no earthly rhyme or reason (that we can figure out) as the why things happen, and why they happen to certain people.
But what I can accept is that we serve a Holy God with a good plan. Whether we adhere to that plan (hourly/daily/weekly/yearly) is entirely up to us, but make no mistake that God has a plan for each one of us.
He's holy--we don't get to know the intricate details (we are common). But He is worthy and we can trust Him to take the best care of us. That has been His plan from the start. It's usually us (and our plans/our thinking/our selfish desires) that get in the way.
Today, I pray that I can offer God the reverence, the respect, the authority that He so richly deserves. May we lift Him up in our hearts and our actions--giving Him distinction because He is holy.
...with a wall all around it to separate what was holy from what was common. ~Ezekiel 42:20
Blessings,
sarah
From the creation of the world--He had a plan and a purpose for each thing, and it was good. Here's just one example--
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good... ~Genesis 1:3-4
God's holiness and His plans still resonate in each new day that we experience. The embarrassing truth (for me), is that in my day to day, I have forgotten (brushed over/pushed past) His holiness.
Sure, I love the Lord. I think of God here and there, and I pray, and I read His word, but if I am honest, the reality of His holiness and His plan for me, for you, for Corona, for tomorrow --has been muted.
It's like getting a new bike (when you are young) or a new car--when you first receive it, you can't get over it. But as time passes, the newness wears off, and so does your appreciation of it.
I realized/remembered today when reading The Bible that WE CAN'T DO THAT WITH GOD! He is HOLY.
I was reading in the Book of Ezekiel (one of God's prophets), and God gave Ezekiel had a vision of a temple. God was so specific in telling Ezekiel the measurements of the height and depth of each alcove, courtyard, wall. Seriously, it repeats the heights, widths, lengths of wall after wall....for example:
Here, too, there were three guard alcoves on each side, with dividing walls and an entry room. All the measurements matched those of the east gateway. The gateway passage was 87 1⁄2 feet long and 43 3⁄4 feet wide between the back walls of facing guard alcoves. ~Ezekiel 40:21
What does this have to do with us, with our lives, and with getting through the Corona isolation?
Never forget that God has a plan for each of us. It is specific, and it is tailored to you and to me, each plan crafted specifically and intimately to the heighth and width of us and our lives.
Just as He created a narwhal (type of whale) to have a horn/tusk sticking out of its head to break through arctic ice in the water (so that it can get air to breathe), He made us special, and our features (inside and out) are tailor-made by the Master Tailor. We are hand-crafted. God had a specific plan with each of us.
That is my (simple) Old-Testament correlation between God's details mattering and having importance, whether in the measurements of a temple-vision or in the unique features that we each possess. You are special and He made you for a reason!
But beyond the measurements, I think the bigger picture that the Lord pressed on my heart through Ezekiel was that He is holy.
So the area was 875 feet on each side with a wall all around it to separate what was holy from what was common. ~Ezekiel 42:20
We are common.
God is holy.
We have to have a (holy) fear of the Lord and His ways and His will for us. Not a "scared" fear, but a sense of reverence, of appreciation. An acknowledgement in our spirit and our lives that He is holy!
In the temple there was a wall between the holy area and the common area, and there was a reason for that wall. The people could not just walk into the holy area. It was holy! Only priests could be in there, and only during special times.
But that was in the Old Testament.
God is still holy. He shall be forevermore.
But then God gave His Son to be the door leading through our common wall into the Holy area that IS God's presence.
We can approach God through Jesus, and that was also His perfect plan from the beginning of creation.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ~John 14:6
It may sound like a contradiction, but I truly felt like the Lord was reminding me that we have access to Him through Jesus, but that we must never forget the holiness of God.
We have to accept that we won't figure everything out. We just won't understand a lot of what happens here on earth. Death, sorrow, hardship. Even success--there is often no earthly rhyme or reason (that we can figure out) as the why things happen, and why they happen to certain people.
But what I can accept is that we serve a Holy God with a good plan. Whether we adhere to that plan (hourly/daily/weekly/yearly) is entirely up to us, but make no mistake that God has a plan for each one of us.
He's holy--we don't get to know the intricate details (we are common). But He is worthy and we can trust Him to take the best care of us. That has been His plan from the start. It's usually us (and our plans/our thinking/our selfish desires) that get in the way.
Today, I pray that I can offer God the reverence, the respect, the authority that He so richly deserves. May we lift Him up in our hearts and our actions--giving Him distinction because He is holy.
...with a wall all around it to separate what was holy from what was common. ~Ezekiel 42:20
Blessings,
sarah
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