servants and sons

I was praying to ask God to help us sing a Messiah concert last night, and was about to pray (as I often had in high school), "send angels to help us sing". It occurred to me that the angels can't sing the Messiah, at least, not some of the parts we were singing - "All we like sheep have gone astray", "and with His stripes we are healed" etc. Jesus is not their Redeemer. These are things that "angels long to look into".

The angels will forever be God's servants. But for all eternity, we get the privilege of being His children!

faith obeys

It really is faith and love that produces obedience. I found commands that I balked at obeying. But the Lord reminded me that I really would be happier if I obeyed. Faith believes that, and loves her Master, and it makes one willing to submit. If HE says I will be happier doing what He says, then though my flesh rebels, I believe it and am glad to obey.

broken cisterns

I am the idol of my heart

why do we insist upon
clinging to our own broken cisterns,
turning away from God who is
the Fountain of living water?

He casts all our sins
into the depths of the sea