Day 101 - It All Adds Up ☝️
📖Daily Reading
Psalms 112-115
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📝 Reflection
Psalm 111: 1-3
Praise the Lord! I will thank the Lord with all my heart as I meet with his godly people. How amazing are the deeds of the lord! All who delight in him should ponder them. Everything he does reveals his glory and majesty.
Psalm 112: 1-3
Praise the Lord! How joyful are those who fear the Lord and delight in obeying his commands. Their children will be successful everywhere; an entire generation of godly people will be blessed. They themselves will be wealthy, and their good deeds will last forever.
“Everything he does reveals his glory and majesty”. Read that slowly and ponder it. He is the author and creator of all of it including the underlying laws and principles that govern it. So doesn’t it ‘add’ up and make sense that we ought to operate in, comply with, have a healthy relationship with and respect for the way things are designed to work? If we want the result of Joy, blessings, generosity, compassion, trust, confidence, fearlessness, abundance, honor, influence, etc.. as described in the rest of psalm 112, then we need to be godly rather than ‘peopley’.
When we add ‘ly’ to a noun we are turning a noun into an adjective. We are implying that something is taking on the characteristics of the noun. So if God is pure, holy, divine, perfect, love, trustworthy, compassionate, generous, powerful, provider, creator, authority, doesn’t it make sense that the followers and believers in God should begin to show or reveal evidence of God in their lives? Many of us ‘say’ we believe and maybe we can quote a scripture or two and go to church on sundays, but there is no other evidence of God’s glory and majesty being revealed in our lives. God leaves clues and evidence of our relationship with Him is revealed in our lives.
When we are ‘peopley’ we have evidence of that as well. I know I am making up a word here, but stick with me. I lived very much ‘peopley’ for a long time and it showed. I was very much ruled by my physical appetites literally and metaphorically. I was very much focused on being ‘good’, being ‘liked’, being ‘nice’, having nice things, looking nice, having nice kids, being a good wife and mom, staying safe and comfortable. You are probably sitting there asking yourself, what’s wrong with any this? Nothing in and of it self, but I had nothing higher I was aiming for. Being nice all the time, and trying to be good and liked is exhausting. It also requires a lot of self deprivation and self denial in the process. I am not sure if you have noticed or not but we people are fickle and change our emotions, feelings, desires a lot. This is a moving target, again this is exhausting. It’s like trying to brush your teeth while eating Oreos. Eventually you will crash and burn living by the whims and desires of other people and yourself.
My efforts in trying to live ‘peopley’ was actually the thing that I now know was causing relationship problems, exhaustion, bad habits, anxiety, and stress. So I finally cried ‘uncle’, ‘I give up’. Instead of trying harder I decided to try different. I decided to surrender and do the work of not only learning a new way of being but taking the time to unlearn and go through the humbling and uncomfortable process of transformation. I decided to also trust God’s ways vs my ways. Rather than trying to satisfy the moving target of people pleasing I decided to go all in with God, who is consistent and never changing. It all adds up, trying to live part peopley and part Godly, just yeilds confusion. This is where I tried to live for almost a decade, it was exhausting, confusing and frustrating to say the least. I really believed but I didn’t trust which means I didn’t really believe. I wanted to believe, there is a difference. I was trusting in myself and my immediate desires which lead me to a daily drinking habit and an overeating habit to seek comfort and relief from my confusion that a divided mind and heart will cause.
I finally had a reckoning moment after a long time of waiting desperately for a lighting bolt of motivation to hit me that would deliver instantaneous and miraculous change, I realized that it doesn’t work that way. I would have to be my own rescuer, by surrendering and being willing to let go of my beloved glass of Chardonnay and my self comforting and soothing habits. That is how it started, no lightning bolt, just an honest moment of exhaustion and admitting to myself that what I was doing wasn’t working - it wasn’t adding up to the result that I ‘said’ that I wanted. If I really wanted what I said I did, I had to be willing to do the things that would add up to that result. What we do repeatedly matters and it reveals itself in our lives and many of us, just like me want to deny and make excuses and blame etc.. but the only person that can make a difference in your life is you. God gives us free will, he blessed us with choice. We can choose life(godly) or death (peopley).
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
What are you choosing? Even if you think you aren’t, you are, even if by default and allowing others to choose for you? God gave YOU life, what are YOU going to do with it?
📖Tomorrows Reading
Psalms 116-119
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