Learn to seek and enjoy God’s peaceful and refreshing Presence in the still of the morning. Enjoy peaceful solitude with Him alone; as He gives you a renewed mind and fresh spirit for the new day that is ahead. Now is the time to come to Him and turn your worries and anxieties over to Him, in trade for His grace; that will give you the peace of mind, strength of soul, and wisdom of mind, to carry you through the upcoming day.
2 Samuel 22:31–God’s way is perfect. All the Lord’s promises prove true. He is a shield for all who look to him for protection.
Now is the time to stop your ceaseless striving to “go it alone” and to acknowledge that He is God and can do a much better job of running your life and make all things turn to the good for you.
Romans 8:28– And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.
Some Christian scholars have made human rules to run their lives, as if they were God’s rules, and in doing so have lost sight of Him and His pure unregulated love. Those rules can enslave believing Christians and and discourage many others from being Christians.
These rules focus on performance (works) rather than the Lord Himself, who is infinitely easy to approach. That is one of the main reasons He died on the cross…To free everyone from the bondage of excessive rituals and rules which reduced access to Him and made everyone think He was a God of anger, rather than a God of everlasting and infinite love.
In order to live our lives as Christ lived His life, we must know Him personally, and have a first person intimate relationship with Him.
1 John 3:2– Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is.
What better way to forge and establish a lasting relationship with Him, than to speak with Him from the heart, in the stillness of the morning, sharing our cares and worries, listening to what He has to say to us, and then to carry His Grace and His Presence with us out into the day.
My Prayer For This Day:
Lord, thank you for the wonder, beauty, and stillness of the new morning. Thank you for renewing my spirit, my mind, and my body for this new day of fellowship with You. Lord, thank you for your peace; a peace that I did not have… and was searching for so many years. Lord, I am joyful that we spend this special time alone with each other in the still of the morning, gathering your peace and strength to face this coming day together.
