Oct 3

My affectionate Father

Personal

Lately, I have felt really strongly that my approach to concerns and hard times has been a bit flawed. I get stuck in a pit and cry out to God about my needs. He pulls me out and I thank Him and move on. Every six months or so the cycle repeats. Well, I think I have found the exit strategy! Recently, we have been snowed in by some remarkably bad financial decisions that just decided to reach up and bite us on the arse. Instead of just fasting and crying out that God just fix it (not that there is anything wrong with that), I have felt compelled to worship and commune (feast even!) with the Father and remember His affections and faithfulness.  Yesterday for instance, I was looking through the Bible hoping to find a pat on the back and maybe a thousand dollars I may have left between the pages. What I found was Psalm 145:

Great is the Lord and highly to be praised; and His greatness is [so vast and deep as to be] unsearchable.

One generation shall laud Your works to another and shall declare Your mighty acts.

On the glorious splendor of Your majesty and on Your wondrous works I will meditate.

In the economy of Heaven, your pocketbook is not the limit or the boundary. The limit is formed by our willingness to commune and align with the heart and direction of our Father, who is faithful. He loves us quite a lot and is constantly in the field making paths for His children. He is our breaker and desires our success. Our dreams and ambitions are not birth in us to create opportunity for failure, but to be the launch into something far greater than the dream or the ambition: a kingdom burden. I am discovering that His burden is light and easily carried, because it creates life.

For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good–not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne.

His burden gives us direction and opens channels through which the kingdom can be injected into this world.  I believe His burden is what empowers us to deliver healing to the sick, life to the dead and dying, freedom to the oppressed, and salvation to those that have lost their way.

Daily His grace and affections undo me and knock me on my rear.