WORKS FOR ME IX

TRUST & OBEY

“There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,

The holy habitation of the Most High.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;

God will help her when morning dawns.

Psalm 46:4,5

Is God in the midst of His people today?  Or have the people of God followed in the footsteps of some and abandoned God and built their own cisterns?  How can we with any integrity claim the presence and promises of God when we have excluded Him and leave Him on the outside of His city looking in?  As a nation, a church, as individuals, we have failed to keep our part of the covenant and yet we expect Him to keep His.  The thing is…He does…faithfully and completely, time after time.  That truth humbles me, makes me sorry for my waywardness, and causes me to be still and simply know that He is God; to know that He alone deserves all of the praise and worship that my heart can give.

“All that I can do is thank You

All that I can do is pray

All that I can do is lift my hands

And sing Your praise.”

I have spent much of my life striving after something that was already given to me.  In my desperation, or perhaps my arrogance, I thought, “It can’t be this simple.”  But it is…

”Trust and obey, for there’s no other way.

To be happy in Jesus, than to trust and obey.”

Finally after all these years, this works for me.