Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. [26] My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
How often is this a statement that we make or even consider? It is so very easy to get caught up in the everyday to the point that we forget the only hope that we have. It is so very easy for us to become numb to this truth.
Caught between the World and the Devil our flesh is so easily empowered and our hearts so easily benumbed. It is only in those providential acts of merciful affliction that we desire to cry out as David does. It is only in the loss or hindering of His mercies that we see how very precious they are.
There are no small blessings, so insignificant mercies and yet we are so very prone to treat them so. We miss so very much of His wonder and lovingkindness simply through inattention and diversion. We hope for heaven and miss the awesomeness of His providence in the everyday.
It does us little good to determine to not be diverted - there is little strength in our determinations. It does us less good to approach Him as though it were some business or social goal we have set for our selves.
No, it is only in His strength that the distractions of the World and the Devil can be dispelled and we can regain the sight we need to whole-heartedly adore Him and see the value of all the mercies He pour out upon us moment by moment.
We are to live in and by the Spirit and not the flesh - but this takes - no, demands a submission, a humbling that we are not prone to give. We are so very oriented to achievement, to works that we bow not our knees for the common and the ordinary. We have been fooled into thinking that we can deal with those things and only need Him for the "big things."
There is none in heaven for us but Him. There is truly nothing here of any comparative value. But we don not live that out in the everyday.
Pray that He will strengthen your heart, your soul, to bend your knees for the common and everyday things we have seen as the products of our efforts. Do not be fooled into thinking that you accomplish anything apart from His providence.
There and there alone will we find the peace He has for us.
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