THANKFUL

Chatting with Jesus

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Lord, like the psalmist, we too are awestruck by how you saw our complete life, from beginning to end, before we were born. Only by your Holy Spirit opening our understanding can we mortals comprehend this attribute of your sovereignty. Yet, Lord, you allow us to choose: will I order my life according to your principles or will I choose a path of my own making? Whatever I choose, I own it.

Perhaps the psalmist was meditating on your sovereignty when he recorded these thoughts.

“You made me; you created me. Now give me the sense to follow your commands” (Psalm 119:73 NLT).

Because he acknowledged you as his Creator, he knew you had a purpose for his life. To put the psalmist’s thoughts another way, he might have asked, “Why am I here?” “What is my purpose?”

Lord, I’ve asked those same questions. Because these are spiritual questions, your answers come when your Spirit speaks to my inner being.

Mistakenly, I used to think your “commands,” were a list of “do’s and don’ts”. Jesus, you revealed your “commands,” or “principles for living” in Matthew 5 through 7. Your teaching in your Sermon on the Mount showed how your “new commands” superseded the old laws and were far better. They outlined how we can have the best life here. The freedoms found in your commands give us our most meaningful life while we are trapped in this fallen world.

Lord, don’t let us miss out on all you have for us. Show us how it only makes sense to follow your precepts leads to a meaningful life. For believers, there’s no better way to live.

Lord, I’m all in. Amen, Jesus.