Day 3 - The Morning After

Psalm 119 - Beth

 9 How can a young person stay on the path of purity?
    By living according to your word.
10 I seek you with all my heart;
    do not let me stray from your commands.
11 I have hidden your word in my heart
    that I might not sin against you.
12 Praise be to you, Lord;
    teach me your decrees.
13 With my lips I recount
    all the laws that come from your mouth.
14 I rejoice in following your statutes
    as one rejoices in great riches.
15 I meditate on your precepts
    and consider your ways.
16 I delight in your decrees;
    I will not neglect your word.

The following day is as important as the day of. I remember very fondly how I felt after I got married to my bride. I was ecstatic and I was excited about what the future had in store for us. There were moments of frustration but more over moments of complete and utter bliss that I felt when I held her in my arms and laid with her the night of. The next morning was altogether a different story. I still felt the high but now I was looking at what need to be done for us. The energy about what life we would create would sip into the moments of our honeymoon. When we would return as a couple we would return to the question....now what.

You get to place in God when you have worked hard and made the connection where the natural question what happens next. There is a insurmountable portion of uncertain that can fill you heart in these moments. When you are used to being control its hard to not know what the next day brings. Now all I care about is not falling backward and pressing forward into what God has called me to, whatever that may be. 

The Daily Bible verse gives much insight to how we should care on.

Psalms 95:6-11

So come, let us worship: bow before him,

    on your knees before God, who made us!

Oh yes, he’s our God,

    and we’re the people he pastures, the flock he feeds.

Drop everything and listen, listen as he speaks:

    “Don’t turn a deaf ear as in the Bitter Uprising,

As on the day of the Wilderness Test,

    when your ancestors turned and put me to the test.

For forty years they watched me at work among them,

    as over and over they tried my patience.

And I was provoked—oh, was I provoked!

    ‘Can’t they keep their minds on God for five minutes?

    Do they simply refuse to walk down my road?’

Exasperated, I exploded,

    ‘They’ll never get where they’re headed,

    never be able to sit down and rest.’”

The call draw of this scripture to me at first is the phrases " Bitter Uprising and Wilderness Test"

I connect with this text because of its context to the Book of Hebrews chapter 4 where this passage is partial quoted. The strength of those phrase lean into the idea that Hebrews is expressing ... remain committed and keep an ear out and open for the things of God. If we get to caught up within our own experiences and the things we see we will become bitter. " Our own actions will cause us to be bitter..."

The wildness test phrase is exactly the same as the bitter uprising....The text says they tested God. They would not go where he was trying to lead them for forty years they kept seeing where they were supposed to be but did not go in. Watched God work but would not allow him to perpetuate  them into what he was calling them to.

Whatever the case the call is the same. Hear God's Word and Do His Will and See His Works.