Thursday, August 10, 2023

08.10.2023-AUGUST_PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

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Thursday August 10^th, 2023

Thought Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Psalm 46:1 NIV @Biblegateway.com

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth.^[b] A song.

¹God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.

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Footnotes

Psalm 46:1 In Hebrew texts 46:1-11 is numbered 46:2-12.
Psalm 46:1 Title: Probably a musical term

Psalm 46:1 in all English translations

Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

As I looked up to the sky this morning seeing the bright bold beautiful colors awakening the earth and walking back to the front door and spotted God’s creators two beautiful wild rabbits feasting in the grass already needing to be cut. I am reminded how often we forget to just look around and see the beauty, promise and gifts that surround us each day we are allowed back up.

I too get so caught up in the day to day sometimes it's hard not to be stuck on the things we cannot change or have no control over. Sometimes we get stuck on the judgement to others or that of others.

Everyone is a critic, and absolutely in this world we are given everyone always has the right answer according to everything they know and believe.

When in truth the answer really is in creation and the beauty loss or gained by our lack of sustenance and caring for what we are given in the here and now.

No, we cannot physically change the stars, moon, sun, sky. However, we can do our part in taking care of mother earth and all the creatures living within.

Starting with humanity. We can live to where when we see something, we do something. When it comes to protection of innocence and growth into positive, productive futures of the generations to come.

Like history our world does not tend to have a great track history. We take just because we want, then we discard out of boredom or the chase to take something else that caught our attention. Sometimes leaving deep scars if not death in the pathway.

We forget to give back and know we lead by example no matter if we are leading through the light or the darkness into no return.

Jesus, who poured out on that cross, who allowed life to continue by taking our sins with only the request we be our best selves and follow Him, live in Him, live with Him. And when we do; suddenly even though we will never be perfect everything around us is consumed deep within a peace and the sights that look past all understanding.

If only we could remember, we have to purpose the bond with the goodness of God daily and beyond all things remember that there is something to be grateful for in every moment we are given. Even when it can be physically killing us here and now.

Like a fish who has been given human form looking from the outside in, trying to understand this world all the while yearning for the depth and colors only the beauty of creation and the maker can bring. The wonder of how we got here is short lived when we know who we are in Him.

We know what we need to do even when we do the things we do not want to or find they have no real purpose; yet we still find ourselves doing at times things against our own gut feelings, or not listening to when God says it is finished. Let it go, move on.

We love to deny that tug of war we give and take back over and over again. As we walk the path in the journey, we are sometimes getting confused over control which will always be an illusion and that proverbial fork in the road in our journey that although every connection we are given has a purpose. It is not for us to try and drive or own the reasons we at times we are not given and if we are trying to change to better suit what we think we are receiving, or others are doing.

What happened to looking out and loving our brothers and sisters in Christ for who they are and not what we think they can do for us?

What happened is that all this material stuff that contaminates the soul, the earth and kills off all the beauty that was meant to be. Where we strive to grow up too fast and complain as we get older. Yet, forget not everyone has the blessing to make it a day much less 29,200.

Without even a beat our lifestyles train-up our youth to be expectant and self-deserving; yet we truly deserve nothing and especially when we have no gratitude or stewardship for even a glimpse of thankfulness in any given day.

Elders robbing babies of life, evil consuming any chance of souls to know what Gods love and mercy was meant to be for all humanity. History is cruel as we are that make it.

Where are we now?

Where is Jesus in your life right here right now? If you do not know it is because you do not allow that relationship for Him to come dwell within. It is because we move, he does not. It is because we do not choose to learn who he is, by sight, by sound, by touch and by being.

Yet every moment we are allowed back up; every second we are allowed to breathe we still have a billion opportunities to meet him, live with Him, for Him and all the good he gave His life for us to be, to do.

Once we are no longer traveling this universe; here and now. Our souls will either be damned in eternal hell or dancing in the streets with all our loved ones in front of Jesus.

And just as the beauty in a sun rise or sunset; a baby coming into this world, God’s nature in all the birds, bunnies, or anything else cute and cuddly. I pray we all never stop hearing the contagious laughter of that child that laughs over silly things. Seeing the colors of all the beauty when we come together in harmony. Or allow our souls and spirits to dance together in the melodies of love and honor and all that has moral values.

Even when it hurts deeply and the brittleness of life is chipping away may we know no matter what, no matter when Christ is with and for us and will sustain all who fight forward with Him, either here or on the other side. That all the blessings of here and now are gone in a split second we still once on the other side of the storm that is will soon be calm and new things will transpire if we just believe and hold on.