Day 50: Numbers 14-15; Psalm 50
When you did these things and I kept silent,
you [thought the ‘I AM’ was] exactly like you.
(Psalm 50:21, NIV - [alternate reading, also ESV])
O LORD, my God,
May I never create You in my own likeness, for any god I would create would be as finite as my being and limited by my imagination. May I never treat You as though You are exactly like me, for then I could do as I please and live an inwardly turned life, ever diminishing into self-exaltation and ultimately extinction. Help me never dare to think that You are like me, for then my god would excuse the very thing in me that I judge and condemn in another. Instead, help me to fix my eyes on Jesus. To understand that the journey into Christlikeness is eternal. For though I am made to be like You, I shall never, ever even come close to being Your equal. However, the journey into Christlikeness is so worthwhile, for by Your grace and through Your Holy Spirit, I will embrace the refining that You do in me, that my life and sacrifice may honor You, and that I may know Your full salvation, for You have made me blameless in Him (Psalm 50:23). These things I ask in the Name of Jesus. Amen!
you [thought the ‘I AM’ was] exactly like you.
(Psalm 50:21, NIV - [alternate reading, also ESV])
O LORD, my God,
May I never create You in my own likeness, for any god I would create would be as finite as my being and limited by my imagination. May I never treat You as though You are exactly like me, for then I could do as I please and live an inwardly turned life, ever diminishing into self-exaltation and ultimately extinction. Help me never dare to think that You are like me, for then my god would excuse the very thing in me that I judge and condemn in another. Instead, help me to fix my eyes on Jesus. To understand that the journey into Christlikeness is eternal. For though I am made to be like You, I shall never, ever even come close to being Your equal. However, the journey into Christlikeness is so worthwhile, for by Your grace and through Your Holy Spirit, I will embrace the refining that You do in me, that my life and sacrifice may honor You, and that I may know Your full salvation, for You have made me blameless in Him (Psalm 50:23). These things I ask in the Name of Jesus. Amen!
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What a message here. I need to pray to be more like Him and not complain so much at the refining moments . He knows what I, His creation, needs.
He does! Check out 'The Refiner's Fire' written by John Mohr & Randall Dennis