THIS IS THE GREATEST NEWS EVER!
In every moment, we have God’s love, help, support, kindness, mercy, strategies, strength, personality, protection, charm, tact, grace, boldness, peace, approval, power, wisdom, calmness, and encouragement backing us up in this crazy world. BUT WE MUST TAKE THE TIME TO DEVELOP A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM WHERE WE LEARN HIS VOICE AND DIRECTION AS WELL HIS PRINCIPLES AND WAYS FOR MAKING WISER DECISIONS.
Like every day, I have a God morning routine! NO SHAME, I NEED GOD!!! I sit down to my alone times with Him reading from our family’s website, reading back old posts, my meditation books, and listening to Ceri, my God influencer. And God always finds some way of revealing His Presence with me. Like this morning, I woke up to a text message alert quoting these verses:
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts. – Isaiah 55:8-9
Fast forward to less than an hour later, I’m having my appointment with God at our dining room table. I opened up my huge Jesus Calling Devotional of over 700 pages and look what I opened directly to:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.” – Isaiah 55:8-9_
No one can tell me this was just a coincidence for someone to wake me up and have me read those verses to me opening that huge devotional directly there to reread them less than an hour later. It was another one of my God winks where everything lines up enormously too perfectly, with Him sweetly revealing another glimpse of His invisible Presence with me.
And He is with you, too! My assignment from Him is to teach you how I experience His Presence with me so you begin to feel and experience Him with you. That verse showing up again was what I consider my high five from Him – Yes, Nik, I am with you! These high fives give me the courage, joy, and peace to take on my day knowing God Himself is with me!
And about His ways being higher than ours, I was freaking out with my brother, Kevin, who told me in an awful moment that I was like a boxer taking 10,000 punches, but that I should stay in the ring because eventually, I would become numb. Who advises such a thing!?! That advice to not give up on being the super glue holding my family together led me to cry happy tears at work with my husband and sons yesterday (us in the pic!). The boys are learning the family hustle, baby! Super proud wifey and mom! Let’s be great every day! Be hard – strong, tough, determined, steadfast, and courageous, but at the same time soft – loving, forgiving, gentle, faithful, and patient. None of us are perfect! And like Ceri has been teaching me, we should make room for each other’s faults, loving others unconditionally the way God loves us. So help us, God!
God is the best Boss ever, and His ways are far better than our human ways! He gives us more than we can ever ask or imagine! But don’t take my word for it; get to know God for yourself! Make today the day you commit to developing a stronger relationship with Him! Wak up every morning to your alone time with Him!