Seeking The Nearness of God - Psalm 63:8

 

Psalm 63:8

My soul follows close behind You;

Your right hand upholds me.

    My soul goes where I go and I'm following close behind my Savior and my God. To follow close is to follow hard after, to pursue a righteous relationship with my God. It is to willingly choose to go where He leads, to walk with Him and not without Him. 

    To follow close is to maintain a healthy relationship with my Savior. To be so close He need only whisper and I will hear His voice. To be so near that when I brush up against Him, whatever has been ailing in me is healed in me. To be able to just lay my head on His shoulder when I grow weary. 

    His right hand upholds me. His Name is Strength. His Name is Mighty Fortress. His Name is Rock, The Chief Cornerstone. In His hand I reside and on His hand I stand and am made able to withstand all who come against me. His hand is refuge, shelter, hiding place. 

    Look at your hand. I look at mine and I see creases and wrinkles of flesh in my palms. My fingers no longer remain stretched out when I extend them: they tend to curl up or bend inwards. I am aging and so are my hands. But God's hands do not age. His hands are always strong, always perfect, always reaching out. 

    His hands are reaching out for whoever wants to be in the palm of His hand, in the shelter of His Love, in the refuge of His Grace, in the hiding place of His Mercy. He's reaching for you, if you are not already here with me, where I am upheld by His hand. 

    Though His fingers are stretched across this globe and through time, the palms of His hand are able to keep me upright and nearby. He will not drop me, nor will I ever want to leave Him. 

    Cup your hand. Turn it towards the light and let the light fall gently across your palm. That's us in the palm of God's cupped hand: The Light of His Love is upon us and will remain so, as long as we remain in His hand. 

    Isn't it wonderful to be this close to God and to know that He is The God of Right Now and Right Here? Yet, He is also The God Who Knows Everything (Omniscient). He knows what we are thinking. [Psalm 139:1-4; 1 Chronicles 28:9; . He knows what we are feeling in our hearts. [1 Samuel 16:7; Jeremiah 17:10; Matthew 5:28]. 

    He is The God Who Can Be Everywhere At The Same Time (Omnipresent), whether we see time past, time present, time future. [Proverbs 15:3; Psalm 139:7].

    He is The God Who Is Almighty (Omnipotent). [Genesis 17:1; 2 Corinthians 6:18; Revelation 1:8; 4:8]. All power is in His hands: in His arm of salvation [Isaiah 59:16]. In His mighty right hand [Psalm 89:13]. 

    This is The God Whom I pursue. This is my God and I am His child. As the songwriter writes, He walks with me and He talks with me, And He tells me I am His own. 

The Lord Is - - - September 2023

 

    Exodus 6:2

And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him,

I AM THE LORD.

    Exodus 3:14,15

God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'"

God also told Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers--the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob--has sent me to you.' This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation."

    This is a powerful statement and only a powerful GOD can make such a statement. The LORD God is such. He is Omnipotent: All powerful. He is Omniscient: All knowing. He is Omnipresent: Everywhere at the same time. 

    Omniscient: 1 John 3:20; Acts 1:24; Isaiah 40:28; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Isaiah 43:10-13. 

    Omnipotent: Revelation 19:6; Psalm 147:5; Joshua 4:24; Daniel 2:20-22; Romans 1:20.

    Omnipresent: Psalm 139:7-10; Jeremiah 23:24; Proverbs 15:3; Colossians 1:17.

   Isn't it amazing that such a God could love us? Could extend the right arm of His righteousness to us? That God would wrap His Powerful Word in frail flesh and send Him to die as punishment for our sins? 

    For The Word, His Son, was and is perfect and in Him is no sin; in Him is no darkness. For Jesus Christ is wholly holy, He is Light and Love sent to bring mankind (women and men, girls and boys) back to The Almighty God. He is sent to bring you and I back to God. 

    We need to throw ourselves on the mercy of His courts (at the cross), repent of our sins against God and be forgiven by Him. We need to become His people once more by allowing His Holy Spirit to transform us from unrighteous living to righteous living. To prepare us to be servants in His kingdom. 

    I would rather be a servant in my Father's house than do anything else anywhere else. Psalm 84:10 "For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked."

LOVED,SAVED,FILLED

EL SHADDAY

(pronounced el-shad-dah'-ee)

GOD ALMIGHTY

Exodus 6:3

And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob by the name of GOD ALMIGHTY, but by My Name JEHOVAH was I not known by them. 

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.’ Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life. (NLT)

 

PATER PHOS

(pronounced pat-ayr' foce)

FATHER OF LIGHTS

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of Lights, with Whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

Matthew 7:11

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

RUACH MISHPAT

(pronounced roo'-akh mish-pawt')

SPIRIT OF JUSTICE

Isaiah 28:6

A Spirit of Justice to Him who sits in judgment, and a Strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.

John 5:30

I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.