GOD’S WAY IS PERFECT

2 Samuel 22: 31-33 NLT 

God’s way is perfect. 

 All the Lord’s promises prove true.

He is a shield for all who look to him for protection.

32 For who is God except the Lord?

Who but our God is a solid rock?

33 God is my strong fortress,

and he makes my way perfect.

So often our flesh wants to go its own way, like the song. “I Did It My Way!”, and when we do that we discover it’s not the best way!😊

Here we read there is only one way that is perfect and that is God’s way.  Perfect here means to be whole and complete, without blemish. I think we’d all like our future path, our ‘way forward’ to be like that. Without blemish means to be perfectly flawless and free from any spot, stain, imperfection or defect.

David wrote these verses and he was saying that’s what it’s like if we’ll follow God’s way and it took him a lifetime to learn it! David knew he had made big mistakes but he’d learned to always come back to God’s way and he would be put right😊. 

He reminds us that God is the One who shields us from our enemy, that God is the only rock on which we can stand and be totally secure. We have to know we only have one safe place and that is in God Himself, not our bank balance, not those in authority, not even our loved ones.

How wonderfully blessed we are to know that, and when we do we’ll turn to Him for every decision, for every provision, for our forgiveness when we get it wrong, for our righteousness to withstand the accusations of the enemy.

When we know God is our rock, that His way is perfect, that He is shielding us and all His promises are true and trustworthy, then we will find His way for our lives is perfect if we’ll follow it.😊

2 Samuel 22:47 NLT The Lord lives! Praise to my Rock! May God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted!

Everyday we make choices, so let’s choose God’s way and let Him make our way perfect and give Him all our praise today. In Jesus name. Amen.

YOU ARE SOMEBODY

Ephesians 2:9-10 NLT Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

I have a sticker on my mirror and it says. “Look who Jesus loves.” I’m reminded that no matter how we feel about ourselves we know Jesus loves us. We need to have the right spectacles on and see ourselves the way God does!😊

Some people have been brought low by bad experiences or negative words spoken over them that have made them see themselves wrongly. Maybe you struggle with low self esteem, with the thought that says you are ‘less than’ in some way, that you always make mistakes or you can never change?

God, however, tells us we are loved, chosen and called by Him, that He sent Jesus to die for us so we could be like Him. When we accepted Jesus as our Saviour He tells us He has anointed us and that we have a destiny in Jesus to be and do all He has put us on earth to do. 

He has made us somebody because of the price Jesus paid for us. We’re not bragging on us, we’re honouring Jesus and what He did for us.😊

God reminds us that we are His very own child, created in the image of God Himself, and when we go into a room He wants us to remember who we are in Jesus - His ambassadors!

We’re not just a nobody, not just a businessman, or a teacher or a carer or a housewife, not just an older person, not just anything. We are who God says we are - His masterpiece, clothed in His righteousness, washed clean from our past failures and mistakes. He tells us that we are a success going somewhere to succeed because Jesus is living in us.😊

Are we getting the picture? If we struggle, thinking we are less than in any sense of the word, God wants to remind us we are  His special treasure, we are overcomers, more than conquerors when we speak out what God says about us. We are victors not victims. We matter to God because we belong to Him.

So wherever you go, and whatever you do, whoever you are with, remember who you are, because Jesus has made you to be somebody, a child of the Most High God, led by His Holy Spirit. Remember God chose you because He loves you and His Spirit is transforming you every day to be more like Jesus.  Thank You Lord. Amen.

Have a blessed weekend.x 😊