God sees everything

 Reminder to myself: 

Nothing goes unseen before God so live before Him. 

Choose God’s way.

At times I really don’t know if I’m asking God and moving by His direction or if I’m just doing what I think fits the occasion.  It really requires a slowing down of my breathing, my mind, my body, and my emotions (if that’s possible).  Basically it requires time to stop whatever I’m doing or thinking and remember not to trust myself but to ask God and consider my own thoughts to be deceptive and warped. 

How can sinners live before God? 

It’s simple. 

We must deny ourselves completely.  

Not partially.  Not just when we get scared or something bad is on the horizon.  

Completely.  

It means we learn to be totally and completely dependent on His voice even if it means we chuck everything we ever accomplished in knowing up until this point. 

We must have a pure surrender before Him. 

Look at my baby Noah.  

He is totally dependent on me.  

If I put him down then he stays down.  

If I carry him downstairs then he goes downstairs.  

Luckily for him I’m crazy about him so I try to think what he would like—he likes to be carried rather than laid down, he likes to be looked at, sang to, talked with, and he likes his diaper changed as soon as he pees.   

So, although he is totally dependent on me for everything I am happy to give him the kind of care and love that he could never have on his own.  I love to consider his needs and meet them. 

That is what surrender to God is. 

It is not that we “sacrifice” or “give up” something precious in order to submit to God, but we surrender ourselves to God who can and desires to give us what we could never have on our own: life in abundance.  

I just have to remember to live before God.  To trust Him more than myself.  To remember that He looks at my heart—my true motives and desires.  To listen rather than react.  To wait rather than take control.  To surrender myself to Him in obedience to whatever He would have me do because I know that He desires to give me what I could never give myself.  When I live before God then I never need to worry about anything because He already has everything under control to give me the most blessed life.  I simply follow and obey.  

“But if it doesn’t please you to worship Yahweh, choose for yourselves today the one you will worship: the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. 

As for me and my family, we will worship Yahweh.””

‭‭Joshua‬ ‭24‬:‭15‬ ‭