Most Omnipotent Lord, Your encourage me to seek You while You can be found and call on You while You are near. I know from my experience with You that You are always available when I need You and therefore are easily found. When I am close to You it is easy to talk with You and ask for my needs knowing my request will be heard and answered. When I can separate myself from my evil ways and turn my thoughts to You, I know You will show my way forward. As sure as the rain and snow fall from the heavens to water the earth, so do Your words leave Your mouth and accomplish their intended purpose. When You speak, Your words achieve the purpose to which they were sent. Your knowledge and wisdom are far greater than mine and that is why I need You daily. I am foolish to try and fit You into my plans … to make Your plans and purposes fit into mine. Instead, I must strive to fit into Your plans.
By listening to You, I have learned the things that are true and that knowledge has empowered me to be set free from my old ways. In listening to You, my soul is fed on good things that help me grow in righteousness. By turning a listening ear to Your sayings, I am provided with a pathway to living life the way You know that I should. In accepting You as my Lord, You have made an everlasting covenant with me that allows me to spend eternity with You. In accepting my position as a follower, You have made me a witness of Your goodness to others and a leader of those who have lost their way. I starve myself spiritually, if I separate myself from You, in the same way that I starve my body if I forgo daily meals. Your expectation is that I will be obedient and closely united with You. If I misstep along the way, I can count on Your being forgiving and giving me another chance. Repentance is the key.
Your Word tells me that You are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. In these words, You claim to be my Way to the Father and righteous living. As Truth, You are the reality of God’s will revealed to all of mankind. As the Life, You are the One who joins Your divine life with my mortal life. You are my tangible image of the invisible God. If I want to know what the Father is like, I need only look to You as a complete revelation of what Your Father is like. To know the eternal God, I must first know You. Any search I make to know God, what is truth, or what is real ends in You. As I internalize Your words, You become an indispensable part of who I am and You take over my speech and everything I do. The way to begin thinking the way You think and do things as You would do them, I must feast on the Scriptures and spend time with You daily. And it’s in Jesus’ name I pray. AMEN!!
Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways. (But they can be learned if I want to live by them.)