A WOMAN AFTER GOD’S OWN HEART By: Joanne Baumeister Turner I believe my desire to know the Lord deeply, began in the Catholic pews of my youth where during every Mass I read and re-read the passion of Jesus, Sunday after Sunday. It was my way of not having to listen to the “boring” sermon of the priest serving Mass When I was about 22 I found Psalm 139, and wrote a song I would sing for Him on long walks with my dog in the fields of Sacramento. This Psalm never leaves me is probably my most studied chapter of the Bible next to the gospels. It’s the one place in that I go back to when I feel the need to put extra life into, or renew my relationship with God. This psalm shows me without a doubt, God not only loves me intimately, but wants to spend time with me. About 38 years old, confined to bed and wheelchair because the pain was more than I could bear, I found myself seeking the deepest relationship with God, with my Jesus as I could find. I was a woman after God’s own heart! That was a deep dark valley for me and the only concrete anchor I could grab onto was the God I had learned to love as a child. Through it all, though a devastating road to travel, I held fast to the words of that Psalm from a “man after Gods own heart.” Wherever you are this evening, or this morning, or whenever you have a chance to read this, I encourage you to drink in the words of David to a God he longs desperately to know at His fullest. “As a deer pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after thee, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God.” Do you seek Him that desperately? If so He will quench your thirst and feed your soul. The presence of God is with us always. We are distracted by multitudes of hindrances not the least of is the chronic illness and pain that screams for our attention and the suffering tides of life. It is our focus that is so easily misplaced. I encourage you to begin tonight reading Psalm 139, and learn how intimately your God knows you. How intimately do you desire to know Him? If He has allowed you to suffer as He has me, He is drawing you deeply to a relationship which I guarantee will outweigh the burden He has asked you to carry. Begin to drink deeply of the joys of knowing your God! God bless you as you feast upon the words of David. May Yahweh’s presence be your focus tonight and through tomorrow. youtu.be/jw_jBfo1pcM
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:07:05 +0000
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