MY FRIENDS, WHAT IS GOD DOING TO GET OUR ATTENTION?

Nov. 9, 2015

MY FRIENDS, WHAT IS GOD DOING TO GET OUR ATTENTION?

“There is a place I long to be In my Savior embrace where I am free From life’s [trials], where there’s rest and sweet communion, because Jesus has all that I need. For in His presence there is fullness of joy. At His right hand are pleasures forevermore. There is no place that I would rather be Than in the arms of Jesus my King.” (Daryl Coley)

“I long to be,” Nothing is more important than the embrace of our Savior as we wrap our arms around Him and say I have searched throughout my life and this is the only place where I find comfort and Joy, and that is only from the Masters touch.

My friends its personal, and I need each of us to focus on where we are in our relationship with God? Or where we would like to be. But whatever He means to each of His Children one day He must become real as we look back as far as we can go where pain became real.

For me, a puppy I lost as a child, oh the hurt I felt, but at that point, at that young age, God was letting me understand, it is the pain and disappointments of our life that gets our attention. Because it is when He has our attention is when we understand, He is all we need.

And He’ll do and use whatever it takes even the death of His Son on the cross to make us understand He is all we need. “Have you ever lost a loved one who you thought should still be here? Do you know what it feels like to be tangled up in fear? What if He’s somehow involved?

What if He’s speaking through it all? To tell us I love you” (Mandisa God speaking) My friends, what is it that God has to do to get our attention besides Calvary where our Salvation was paid for? And it is only through our faith, endurance and understanding that we realize, He is all we need that allows us to cry out daily, Lord not my will, but thy will be done.

My friends, we are broken, and we need to be fixed and it is only God’s grace and mercy that can repair what we can never do ourselves. But we must understand God will do whatever it takes to fix one of His broken vessels and “get our attention.”

Because He wants us to know it is not about the death of a puppy, or a love one that is no longer with us, or a job that you truly loved but have been told your services are no longer needed, or the cancer you have to deal with, or the Child who no longer knows God.

My friends, it’s personal, it’s your life, your story, your journey. But whatever our situation or circumstances is, we must understand, God is trying to save us. “Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night” for my friends, family, love one’s and the world.”

Not from where we have come from, but for what is in front of us that I know the chaos and the god of this world keeps us from focusing on. But God loves us so much, and whatever He is doing to get our attention, we must listen.

And tell ourselves, Christ said 2,000 years ago that He was going to prepare a place just for us and He will come back to get His faithful who have endured, and wherever He went, we will do whatever it takes to be there also.

My Friends, where there is no vision, the people perish…..Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)