Tremble

I am laying in  bed, waiting for my hubby to finish turning out the lights around the house, locking the doors , brushing his teeth etc. I have my Bible opened, my journal handy and I pray. " Lord, I am not sure where to read tonight. Please guide me, open my heart to Your Word." I start off in Romans 3, when I hear the Holy Spirit tell me to read Psalm 113. " Alright God, if that's where you want me." I say. 

Psalm 113

¹Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.

 ²Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.

 ³From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD's name is to be praised.

 ⁴The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.

 ⁵Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,

 ⁶Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!

 ⁷He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

 ⁸That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

 ⁹He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

I don't need to explain what that chapter is about.... The first verse sums it up. I loved this chapter...I love that it shows how we need to praise God... For the wonderful things He does. He is truly a marvelous Lord. But this post isn't about Psalm 113. God directed me elsewhere. I had a feeling to continue, so I decided to read on. Reading the short little chapter of Psalm 114. One verse grabbed hold of my heart. Hung to it so tightly , I immediately opened my journal and just wrote...Asking God to lay on me anything He wants to say. 

Psalm 114:7
" Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord. At the presence of the God of Jacob." 
Does that verse not speak volumes.  - Tremble-  
It commands the earth to tremble because of the presence of GOD!!!! Our God... Our Almighty. We get to experience God everyday. Yet we take our Savior for granted. We get the priveledge to experience God not only in the big things, but the little ones too.  The little things He so wants to be apart of. Yet, do we tremble? 

As we sit in our churches, in our homes worshiping, PRAISING our Father, as his beautiful, wonderful presence falls down upon us and fills us, are we trembling?  It is a command that the earth tremble before God. Shouldn't we? 

Our God is Almighty! "  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." Revelation 1:8

How many of us are experiencing God and yet taking Him for granted? I know I have.

Too long have we sat in silence! His Divine Presence is given to us freely. It's a gift! And we do nothing about it! We should be shouting for joy in worship, in our pastors sermons. Shouting because our Lord, our King, our SALVATION has shown up!!! The Lord fills us with HIM!!! His beautiful, wonderful self. How I ask, can people stand silent as this happens? Too long have we been quiet. Wake up!!! Shout! Cry out to our God!!! Shout to Him to proclaim His greatness. His glory. 

We serve an awesome God. Why then, if we know wholeheartedly how great our God is, are we not proclaiming that. God tells us to stand unashamed. Are you? His Word lives in us. HE lives in us. He is our hope, our love, our salvation. Our Majesty. In everything we do, we need to proclaim the LOVE of GOD.

Tremble before the Lord, because of His Magnificence. 

-Father God, I thank you. For answering my prayer and guiding me. For showing me what you wanted me to say. Thank you for listening Father. For loving me enough to listen and answer so directly and powerfully. You are truly an awesome God! I stand before you God unashamed of your Word. Unashamed of You God. For you are more precious to me, than anything. Thank you Lord Jesus.-

Amen

Fruits

So I am checking my facebook, reading new notifications, and friends status updates. I stop for a second and read someones status, when a face catches my attention. And then a few faces. And then a multitude of them. I know these people  I say. At that moment, high school floods into my mind and I remember. Oh yes, I know these people because I went to high school with them. My thoughts flood to why or why do these people know my people. People from church! I was horrified. 

Just to give you an insight.  I hated "me" in high-school. I hated everything about myself, my life, who I became. It was very bad and I was not a good person. Sin had a strong hold on me and I ran with it in desperation. Trying hard to find comfort from everything I was doing to myself when the answer was already in my heart. That story is for another day. So as I sit horrified to know that people I grew up with, people who knew me in high school went to my church, were associated with people I knew and talked with, a verse popped into my head. " By the fruits of the Spirit they shall know thee." 

I don't know where to find that verse in the Bible... but it wouldn't go away. It just sat there, " By the fruits of the Spirit they shall know thee." Like a beacon trying to find it's way through memories of shame and self worthlessness. So I prayed. God what does that mean. What are you trying to show me.  He gave me this:

Galatians 5:22-26

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.  And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.  Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another."

Those are the fruits of the Spirit. I still didn't understand thinking , alright God but what does that have to do with me. I prayed harder asking for clarity. For the Lord to help me understand. And then it hit me. I am a NEW creation. Who I was is not who I am. The Lord showed me that what they will see today, these people I used to know,is the Fruits of the Spirit. Only  as I continue to hold onto them and use them. Christ lives in me. That will show.. Not who I was years ago. But who I am today as a daughter of the Most High. My Abba. 

Instead of dwelling and letting that shame and hate capture me, God led me to show me that I am not who I was then , or a year ago. I am new. It's time I start realizing I am a new creation. When I surrendered to the Lord the old me died away. Who I am in God is who I am today. I am still learning who this me is... But so far I LOVE who I see.

Lord,

Thank you Father for holding onto me even when the shame of sin tried to grasp me. To take me into that hole of desperation. Your hands held me. You gave me a voice in the darkness, a light into the shame with just a verse. Thank you Father for showing me I am something to you. I am not that person anymore, that I am new in you! I love you Lord Jesus! 

Amen