"Then you will take delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."
To wrap up this chapter it says "For the mouth of the LORD has spoken". The word for mouth is peh, which means the mouth, as the means of blowing.
Let the breath of God seal these ideas to my mind so they will return to me.
Draw near to God by helping those who need help and recognizing the blessings He has given already.
A special blessing for me today was that my 7 year old daughter wanted to help with Bible Study. We had a very good time talking about the Bible and learning a few Hebrew words. It did keep me from writing much down but a wonderful exchange in my opinion.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Isaiah 58:13
"If because of the Sabbath, you turn your foot from doing your own
pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of
the LORD honorable, and honor it, desisting from your own ways, from
seeking your own pleasure and speaking your own word,"
The first time we see the word Sabbath in the Old Testament is Exodus 16:23 when God first began providing bread from heaven to those following Moses.
"then he said to them, "This is what the LORD meant: Tomorrow is a sabbath observance, a holy sabbath to the LORD, bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning."
Although that was the first mention of the word "Sabbath" it was not the first mention of a day set aside for the LORD. That came back in Genesis 2:3.
"Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made."
I need to turn my steps away from accomplishing what is pleasing to me because I want to honor the seventh day, which God set apart and sanctified as holy.
The question for me is ... how do I actually accomplish this? My Sunday plan most weeks include the following: church, visiting family , and sports (mainly watching football).
As an aside, I am really easily distracted. The thought of visiting family froze me in the Bible Study as I immediately started planning visits and dinner parties in my head. Now, where was I?
Church, family and sports are my pleasures but I don't know if they are exclusive to honoring God and His holy day. Church, for obvious reasons. Family, I think that gathering with family and honoring those relationships can be a way of honoring God. Perhaps this would be a good thing to keep in mind when I am visiting.
Sports ... hmmmm ... I don't know what to think about that one. Anybody out there have some thoughts?
The first time we see the word Sabbath in the Old Testament is Exodus 16:23 when God first began providing bread from heaven to those following Moses.
"then he said to them, "This is what the LORD meant: Tomorrow is a sabbath observance, a holy sabbath to the LORD, bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning."
Although that was the first mention of the word "Sabbath" it was not the first mention of a day set aside for the LORD. That came back in Genesis 2:3.
"Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made."
I need to turn my steps away from accomplishing what is pleasing to me because I want to honor the seventh day, which God set apart and sanctified as holy.
The question for me is ... how do I actually accomplish this? My Sunday plan most weeks include the following: church, visiting family , and sports (mainly watching football).
As an aside, I am really easily distracted. The thought of visiting family froze me in the Bible Study as I immediately started planning visits and dinner parties in my head. Now, where was I?
Church, family and sports are my pleasures but I don't know if they are exclusive to honoring God and His holy day. Church, for obvious reasons. Family, I think that gathering with family and honoring those relationships can be a way of honoring God. Perhaps this would be a good thing to keep in mind when I am visiting.
Sports ... hmmmm ... I don't know what to think about that one. Anybody out there have some thoughts?
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Isaiah 58:13-14
"If because of the Sabbath, you turn your foot from doing your own pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD honorable, and honor it, desisting from your own ways, from seeking your own pleasure and speaking your own word, then you will take delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."
This is a tough one for me, but it is also inspiring.
The Hebrew word "im" at the beginning of this passage is very important to my understanding of it. A simple word meaning "lo!" and most often translated as "if". If I take delight in the Sabbath as a time to focus on God and how much He loves me and blesses me, then how could I not be even more open to receive even more blessings from Him. Just being open to recognize our blessings is a blessing in itself.
This is a tough one for me, but it is also inspiring.
The Hebrew word "im" at the beginning of this passage is very important to my understanding of it. A simple word meaning "lo!" and most often translated as "if". If I take delight in the Sabbath as a time to focus on God and how much He loves me and blesses me, then how could I not be even more open to receive even more blessings from Him. Just being open to recognize our blessings is a blessing in itself.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Isaiah 58:11-12
11. And the LORD will continually guide you, and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.
So comforting to thing of God always being with me. Guiding me, caring for me, strengthening me, filling me up so much that what He gives me spills out to others like "a spring whose waters never fail".
Lord, let me not turn off the tap or block the waters. Let me be a source of your living water for others.
12. Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins; You will raise up the age-old foundations; and you will be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of the streets in which to dwell.
In a literal translation ancient ruins = the wastes of forever and age-old foundations = the foundation of generation and generation.
A literal translation: "And those who come of you shall build the old ruins; you shall rear the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called the Repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to live in."
Sounds like the work World Vision does. They go to the wastelands (literal and figurative wastes) to help build up the children for impact on future generations.They fill in the gaps and help make communities more livable.
No, I don't work for World Vision. I simply admire the work they do.
So comforting to thing of God always being with me. Guiding me, caring for me, strengthening me, filling me up so much that what He gives me spills out to others like "a spring whose waters never fail".
Lord, let me not turn off the tap or block the waters. Let me be a source of your living water for others.
12. Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins; You will raise up the age-old foundations; and you will be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of the streets in which to dwell.
In a literal translation ancient ruins = the wastes of forever and age-old foundations = the foundation of generation and generation.
A literal translation: "And those who come of you shall build the old ruins; you shall rear the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called the Repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to live in."
Sounds like the work World Vision does. They go to the wastelands (literal and figurative wastes) to help build up the children for impact on future generations.They fill in the gaps and help make communities more livable.
No, I don't work for World Vision. I simply admire the work they do.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Isaiah 58:10
A repeating theme seems to be coming through: Bless other and you will be blessed.
10. And if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, Then your light will rise in darkness and your gloom will become like midday.
A few words from the Hebrew:
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh (neh'·fesh): a breathing creature or vitality
עָנָה
anah (ä·nä): to depress
שָׂבַע
saba (sä·vah): to sate (fill to satisfaction)
זָרַח
zarach (zä·rakh): to irradiate (or shoot forth beams)
אֲפֵלָה
aphelah (af·ā·lä): duskiness; misfortune
צֹהַר
tsohar (tsō'·har): a light (window): dual double light (midday, noon, window)
Feed the hungry with your every breath, fill to satisfaction the depressed. Then light will shoot for4th beams into the darkness, like a window bringing the light of midday in the duskiness of misfortune.
10. And if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, Then your light will rise in darkness and your gloom will become like midday.
A few words from the Hebrew:
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh (neh'·fesh): a breathing creature or vitality
עָנָה
anah (ä·nä): to depress
שָׂבַע
saba (sä·vah): to sate (fill to satisfaction)
זָרַח
zarach (zä·rakh): to irradiate (or shoot forth beams)
אֲפֵלָה
aphelah (af·ā·lä): duskiness; misfortune
צֹהַר
tsohar (tsō'·har): a light (window): dual double light (midday, noon, window)
Feed the hungry with your every breath, fill to satisfaction the depressed. Then light will shoot for4th beams into the darkness, like a window bringing the light of midday in the duskiness of misfortune.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Isaiah 58:9
9. Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; You will cry, and He will say, 'Here I am'. If you remove the yoke from your midst, The pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness,
Don't burden others or speak badly of others. This will help us draw near to God. When we are close to God and call out to Him he will be there ready to answer. Of course, He is always there ready to answer. However, when we are drawing close to Him I think we are more ready to hear His response when we have called out to Him.
I really like to know the root meaning of the words originally written by the people inspired by God to write them.
אָז
az (äz): at that time or place; therefore
קָרָא
qara (kä·rä): to call out to
יְהֹוָה
Yĕhovah (yeh·hō·vä): the self-Existent, Eternal
עָנָה
anah (ä·nä): to eye, to heed; pay attention, respond
שָׁוַע
shava (shä·vah): to be free (from trouble); cry aloud or shout for help
אָמַר
amar (ä·mar): to say; answer, declare, talk
הִנֵּה
hinneh (hin·nā): lo!; behold, see
אִם
im (ēm): if, although
סוּר
cuwr (sür): to turn off; leave undone, remove, turn aside
תָּוֶךְ
tavek (tä'·vek): a bisection, the center; therein, middle, midst, with
מוֹטָה
mowtah (mō·tä): a yoke
שָׁלַח
shalach (shä·lakh): to send away, for or out
אֶצְבַּע
etsba (ets·bah): something to seize with; a finger, a toe
דָּבַר
dabar (dä·var): to arrange (words); to speak
אָוֶן
aven (ä·ven): trouble, vanity, wickedness
My word-for-word translation: At that time - to call out to - Jehovah - respond - shout for help - to say - behold - if - turn aside - amidst - a yoke - send away - finger - speaking - trouble
My conversational translation: Then I will call out to God and He will respond. If I shout for help, He will say, 'Behold', if I turn aside amidst the yoke and send away the finger speaking trouble.
I am making an assumption that if I shout out for help and God responds with, "Behold!" that something follows that will help me. Could be a message I hear or read, something I see or an action that helps me.
This verse makes me think of the golden rule, "Do unto others as you would have done unto you."
Somehow this verse says to me, "Treat others the way you would like God to treat you."
That's something for me to think about today. How am I treating others? Is it how I want to be treated by them or more importantly by God?
Don't burden others or speak badly of others. This will help us draw near to God. When we are close to God and call out to Him he will be there ready to answer. Of course, He is always there ready to answer. However, when we are drawing close to Him I think we are more ready to hear His response when we have called out to Him.
I really like to know the root meaning of the words originally written by the people inspired by God to write them.
אָז
az (äz): at that time or place; therefore
קָרָא
qara (kä·rä): to call out to
יְהֹוָה
Yĕhovah (yeh·hō·vä): the self-Existent, Eternal
עָנָה
anah (ä·nä): to eye, to heed; pay attention, respond
שָׁוַע
shava (shä·vah): to be free (from trouble); cry aloud or shout for help
אָמַר
amar (ä·mar): to say; answer, declare, talk
הִנֵּה
hinneh (hin·nā): lo!; behold, see
אִם
im (ēm): if, although
סוּר
cuwr (sür): to turn off; leave undone, remove, turn aside
תָּוֶךְ
tavek (tä'·vek): a bisection, the center; therein, middle, midst, with
מוֹטָה
mowtah (mō·tä): a yoke
שָׁלַח
shalach (shä·lakh): to send away, for or out
אֶצְבַּע
etsba (ets·bah): something to seize with; a finger, a toe
דָּבַר
dabar (dä·var): to arrange (words); to speak
אָוֶן
aven (ä·ven): trouble, vanity, wickedness
My word-for-word translation: At that time - to call out to - Jehovah - respond - shout for help - to say - behold - if - turn aside - amidst - a yoke - send away - finger - speaking - trouble
My conversational translation: Then I will call out to God and He will respond. If I shout for help, He will say, 'Behold', if I turn aside amidst the yoke and send away the finger speaking trouble.
I am making an assumption that if I shout out for help and God responds with, "Behold!" that something follows that will help me. Could be a message I hear or read, something I see or an action that helps me.
This verse makes me think of the golden rule, "Do unto others as you would have done unto you."
Somehow this verse says to me, "Treat others the way you would like God to treat you."
That's something for me to think about today. How am I treating others? Is it how I want to be treated by them or more importantly by God?
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Isaiah 58:8
Lord God, please help me to focus on you and your word.
When trying to draw near to God I cannot simply go about doing whatever I want. I must consider each action, each word and each thought ... for each one consider, "Is this pleasing to God?".
8. Then your light will break out like the dawn, And your recovery will speedily spring forth; And your righteousness will go before you; The glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
Recovery will spring forth...
צָמַח
tsamach (tsä·makh): to sprout; bud, grow, cause to spring forth or spring up
So, not only will luminous light and happiness burst into me and my life but also a wholeness in health and spirit will grow rapidly within me?
This sounds fantastic!
Righteousness will go before me and the glory of God will watch behind me.
NLT: Your godliness will lead you forward, and the glory of the LORD will protect you from behind."
יְהֹוָה
Yĕhovah (yeh·hō·vä): the self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah = "the existing one"
אָסַף
acaph (ä·saf): to gather (in, together, up again)
I will walk with my face looking to God and He who is and always will be will gather me up.
I love that He gathers me up. The idea of us gathering up our children when they are hurt, scared or in danger is the picture I get of my loving Father in heaven gathering me up.
Today I can go about all the tasks I have to do with a picture of God holding me close in His arms while pouring light and happiness and wholeness into my life.
Feeling loved.
When trying to draw near to God I cannot simply go about doing whatever I want. I must consider each action, each word and each thought ... for each one consider, "Is this pleasing to God?".
8. Then your light will break out like the dawn, And your recovery will speedily spring forth; And your righteousness will go before you; The glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
Recovery will spring forth...
אֲרוּכָה
arukah (ar·ü·kä): wholeness, health, perfectedצָמַח
tsamach (tsä·makh): to sprout; bud, grow, cause to spring forth or spring up
So, not only will luminous light and happiness burst into me and my life but also a wholeness in health and spirit will grow rapidly within me?
This sounds fantastic!
Righteousness will go before me and the glory of God will watch behind me.
NLT: Your godliness will lead you forward, and the glory of the LORD will protect you from behind."
יְהֹוָה
Yĕhovah (yeh·hō·vä): the self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah = "the existing one"
אָסַף
acaph (ä·saf): to gather (in, together, up again)
I will walk with my face looking to God and He who is and always will be will gather me up.
I love that He gathers me up. The idea of us gathering up our children when they are hurt, scared or in danger is the picture I get of my loving Father in heaven gathering me up.
Today I can go about all the tasks I have to do with a picture of God holding me close in His arms while pouring light and happiness and wholeness into my life.
Feeling loved.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Isaiah 58:8
Brings me right back to my favorite line of scripture, "Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you."
I love the beautiful imagery of the light breaking out like the dawn.
אָז
az (äz): luminous (in every sense; lightning, happiness, etc.)
This is the same "light" referred to in Genesis 1:3, "And God said, 'Let there be light ..."
I want to be so filled with God's light that it spills out and draws people to Him. Not that I would be remembered but that I can be a conduit for God's love to reach others.
Like Rebekah gives through her melting hugs. A true, physical example of complete love if I have ever experienced one.
בָּקַע
baqa (bä·kah): ready to burst, rend, hatch
I love that the light of God is pictured explosively coming into my life.
How do I get that?
Oh, right ... look back a couple of verses. Fight injustice and help those who need help.
Over simplification?
Perhaps, but I hope and pray that when I think of my favorite scripture now this will also come into my mind as the way to draw near to God.
I love this verse so much! Clearly I'm going to have to dig into it more tomorrow. In the meantime I will be trying to treat people justly and help those that I see need help.
Here's a radical idea ... perhaps I could pray for God to open my eyes to see those who need help.
Yes, I know ... a "duh" moment if I've ever had one.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Isaiah 58:5-7
5. Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one's head like a reed And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the Lord?
Going through the motions, fasting on auto-pilot, this is not pleasing to God.
How crazy that I read verse five and start struggling over what it all means and then realize I haven't asked God to show me His truth and help me understand His word. Here am I, going through the motions on auto-pilot while reading about just that behavior.
I have prayed many times for God to speak clearly and to make things so obvious it can't be missed what He wants me to do. I have prayed for Him to "hit me over the head" because discernment does not seem to be one of my gifts.
I am so grateful that He does just that on occasions like today.
God, you are so good!
6. Is this not the fast which I choose, To loosen the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go free And break every yoke?
He wants us to fight against injustice. While I might not be able to rid the world of injustice, I can work in my own home to keep myself from being unjust to my husband and my children. Who know, there could be a ripple effect from what I teach my children through example. What do I want that ripple effect to be?
7. Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry And bring the poor into the house; When you see the naked, to cover him; And not to hide from your own flesh?
He wants us to help those who need help.
"Service to God is doing what needs to be done - right now, right in front of you."
I don't know the individual who shared this with my aunt, but I am ever so grateful that she passed it along to me.
Like the battle against injustice, I cannot myself rid the world of poverty. However, that doesn't mean I shouldn't try to do what I can to strive for a world free of poverty and injustice.
So convicting to me is the last line of verse seven:
NASB: "And not to hide yourself from your own flesh."
NIV: "And not turn away from your own flesh and blood."
NLT: "And not hide from relatives who need your help."
MSG: "Being available to your own family."
Truly convicting me today!
Going through the motions, fasting on auto-pilot, this is not pleasing to God.
How crazy that I read verse five and start struggling over what it all means and then realize I haven't asked God to show me His truth and help me understand His word. Here am I, going through the motions on auto-pilot while reading about just that behavior.
I have prayed many times for God to speak clearly and to make things so obvious it can't be missed what He wants me to do. I have prayed for Him to "hit me over the head" because discernment does not seem to be one of my gifts.
I am so grateful that He does just that on occasions like today.
God, you are so good!
6. Is this not the fast which I choose, To loosen the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go free And break every yoke?
He wants us to fight against injustice. While I might not be able to rid the world of injustice, I can work in my own home to keep myself from being unjust to my husband and my children. Who know, there could be a ripple effect from what I teach my children through example. What do I want that ripple effect to be?
7. Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry And bring the poor into the house; When you see the naked, to cover him; And not to hide from your own flesh?
He wants us to help those who need help.
"Service to God is doing what needs to be done - right now, right in front of you."
I don't know the individual who shared this with my aunt, but I am ever so grateful that she passed it along to me.
Like the battle against injustice, I cannot myself rid the world of poverty. However, that doesn't mean I shouldn't try to do what I can to strive for a world free of poverty and injustice.
So convicting to me is the last line of verse seven:
NASB: "And not to hide yourself from your own flesh."
NIV: "And not turn away from your own flesh and blood."
NLT: "And not hide from relatives who need your help."
MSG: "Being available to your own family."
Truly convicting me today!
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Isaiah 58
1. Call out with the throat! Do not spare. Lift up you voice like the trumpet! And show my people their rebellion, and their sins to the house of Jacob."
I am struck by the original Hebrew in verse one.
גָּרוֹן
garown (gä·rōn): the throat, giving forth rough sounds (from the root word garar)
גָּרַר
garar (gä·rar'): to drag off roughly, to bring up the cud (an onomatopoeiac word)
It just strikes me that this was literally groaning aloud. The seriousness of certain situation is so intense that when we speak it is not in a calm, smooth voice but in gut-wrenching sobs or utterances.
3&4. 'Why have we fasted and You do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?' Behold, on the day of your fast you find your desire, And drive hard all your workers. Behold, you fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast like you do today to make your voice heard on high.
If I am fasting and laying myself open to the Lord am I doing it for the right reason?
Jesus talked about the Pharisees in Matthew 23:5
But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men, for they broaden their phylactories, and lengthen the tassels of their garments.
Jesus also tells in Matthew 6:16
And when you fast, do not be as the hypocrites, darkening the face, for they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to men to be fasting. Truly I say to you that they have their reward.
Here in Isaiah, even more than the avoidance of public spectacle, our hearts need to be right. Even if nobody knows of your fasting ...
Am I fasting and laying before the Lord as a way of saying, "Hey! Look at me God. I'm putting myself in discomfort for you. Did you see me? Do I get something for my discomfort now?"
Is it a checklist item, "Okay, I did my fast. What's next?"
Am I taking pleasure in the discomfort of the fast as a form of pride?
If I am fasting it should be a truly humbling experience, done as a sacrifice of love to my Lord. A way of putting Him above all else.
In writing this I know that I have never had a pure fast.
I am struck by the original Hebrew in verse one.
גָּרוֹן
garown (gä·rōn): the throat, giving forth rough sounds (from the root word garar)
גָּרַר
garar (gä·rar'): to drag off roughly, to bring up the cud (an onomatopoeiac word)
It just strikes me that this was literally groaning aloud. The seriousness of certain situation is so intense that when we speak it is not in a calm, smooth voice but in gut-wrenching sobs or utterances.
3&4. 'Why have we fasted and You do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?' Behold, on the day of your fast you find your desire, And drive hard all your workers. Behold, you fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast like you do today to make your voice heard on high.
If I am fasting and laying myself open to the Lord am I doing it for the right reason?
Jesus talked about the Pharisees in Matthew 23:5
But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men, for they broaden their phylactories, and lengthen the tassels of their garments.
Jesus also tells in Matthew 6:16
And when you fast, do not be as the hypocrites, darkening the face, for they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to men to be fasting. Truly I say to you that they have their reward.
Here in Isaiah, even more than the avoidance of public spectacle, our hearts need to be right. Even if nobody knows of your fasting ...
Am I fasting and laying before the Lord as a way of saying, "Hey! Look at me God. I'm putting myself in discomfort for you. Did you see me? Do I get something for my discomfort now?"
Is it a checklist item, "Okay, I did my fast. What's next?"
Am I taking pleasure in the discomfort of the fast as a form of pride?
If I am fasting it should be a truly humbling experience, done as a sacrifice of love to my Lord. A way of putting Him above all else.
In writing this I know that I have never had a pure fast.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Isaiah 58:1-2
1. Cry loudly, do not hold back; Raise your voice like a trumpet, And declare to My people their transgression And to the house of Jacob their sins.
Those of us who know God and follow Jesus are held accountable for how we live. We know that we are to read our Bibles and to be in constant prayer, for this is how we hear from God. How will we know what He has for us if we are not in communion with Him?
2. Yet the seek Me day by day and delight to know My ways, As a nation that has done righteousness And has not forsaken the ordinance of their God. They ask Me for just decisions, They delight in the nearness of God.
Two scriptures that help me to understand this:
Titus 1:16 They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient, and worthless for any good deed.
James 4:8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
We seek to know God and we ask Him for righteous judgements, we want to be close to Jesus ... but do we really?
My favorite scripture is James 4:8. When I think of this scripture I am thinking of how much God loves me and wants to hold me in His arms. It gives me a vision of God, with me in His lap, curled up and safe .... like a little girl in her loving father's arms. Less often I think of the second half of that verse which tells us to live the way we should. It states that if we have sinned we need to get cleaned up and we need our hearts to be pure and not of two minds. The original Greek is dipsuchos (dip'-soo-khos) which means literally two-spirited.
We want to be close with God and know His truth but we want it to be comfortable.
Am I really doing what God wants and drawing near to Him?
I want so much to have alone time with God and to hear from Him through His word (the Bible).
I have a litany of reasons that I don't do it:
- I have to get my work hours in
- Laundry, dishes, mopping, cooking
- Do something fun for the girls
- Too tired to think, just want to veg and/or be entertained
God wants to bless me. I say I trust Him but then I go back to trying to do it alone. Why don't I trust Him to help me complete the lesser tasks if I first draw close to Him.
My two spirits:
- Draw close to God
- This world and all the responsibilities I have in it
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