Flashback Friday Devotion #58 [Three Steps]

Jul 09, 2010

Hi, Everyone.
TGIF! Today God Is First! :) 
Let's pray for all those having surgery today, as well as those recovering from surgery. Pray for those who need to take the next step (see devotion). 
Have a great weekend. Lord willing, I'll be back on Monday with a new mini-devotional series in the Life Plan Devotion. I'm excited, apprehensive, and feel inadequate (I am, but God isn't), so I appreciate your prayers. 
Today's devotion is from my personal journal dated June 5, 2007. The journal entries chronicle the 60-day journey the Lord and I went on, which led the way to some weight loss, WLS, and impacts me, still, today. 
Blessings,
Mary 

Flashback Friday Devotion #58 [Three Steps]


     Do you have a favorite verse that you've memorized, but then, one day, you looked it up, read a verse or two above it, and realized there was so much more there than you thought? That happened to me today, when I read Psalm 37:3-4.
     Psalm 37:3-4 reads, "Trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) in the Lord and do good; so shall you dwell in the land and feed surely on His faithfulness, and truly you shall be fed. Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart" (Amplified). 
     The word "also" in verse 4 caused me look up the verse, as it told me that there was something else that came before, some other requirement(s) or step(s). Step One:  Trust. Step Two:  Do good. Step Three:  Delight.
     Those two verses say it all! If I trust in the Lord, if I lean on Him, rely on Him, and be confident in Him, and if I "do good" (do what I know I should be doing, in all areas of life), I WILL dwell in my promised land, and He will feed me with His faithfulness. He will be my delight, and He will bless me with every desire that I have, even the secret petitions that only He knows I have in my heart.
     Delighting my soul in the Lord is worship, pure and simple. It's focusing on Him, it's kneeling before Him or sitting at His feet, it's offering all I am to Him, and it's enjoying Him. It's rejoicing my heart in Him, it's yearning for Him, it's thinking about Him, it's talking to Him, it's listening for His still small voice, it's running to Him.
     It is amazing to me that I can slim my body by fattening my soul! I no longer try to find satisfaction in food, other than to enjoy it as the gift God intended it to be and nourishment for my physical body. Now, I find ultimate spiritual food in God's Word and in His presence.
     God knew that one of the desires of my heart is to lose weight and be a living testimony of His Grace. I am finding that as there is more of Jesus, there is less of me. What a delight!

Today, evaluate how you're doing with the 3 Steps to Life (Trusting, Doing that which is good, and Delighting in the Lord). Take time to worship, today. Listen to Chris Tomlin sing "Made to Worship," a song he wrote for the national "Called to Love" youth conference. This song answers the age-old question, "Why am I here?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9taG2SSp8k 

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