Shout for JOY to God, all the earth - Ps. 66:1

Cindi Wood, in her Bible study "DESPERATE: Seeking Simplicity...Finding the Cross," honestly admits she is sometimes desperate for her morning coffee.  She tells a story of being in a hotel room and having her coffee maker not work, sprinting down to the lobby to find the hotel's was not working and feeling terribly obsessed only with getting her morning java.  I get that way sometimes...I see only what I want and nothing else.  Sometimes I can live my life that way for a very long period of time...way too long obsessing over something...something other than my Lord.  Cindi says:

You were created with a hungering in your spirit not only

to need God but also to want Him - to want

Him more than you want anybody or anything.  He put

that craving there; it's from Him.

 

God created us to look to Him for all our wants and needs.  When we begin to look to lesser things - even sweet and good things - we will begin to experience lesser satisfaction.  We "shout for joy" for a lot of things - a new granddaughter (we have one!), an NBA championship (we have one!), new houses, new cars...but are we shouting for JOY to Him?  Our psalmist today went on in the following verses to rehearse all the good things he was "shouting for joy" about...all things God had done.  What are you "shouting for joy" about today and to whom are you shouting?

 

For further study: Deu. 4:24, 1 Chron. 16:27, Neh. 8:10, Ps. 37:4, Ecc. 3:11, Jonah 2:8, Habakkuk 3:18, Matt. 6:33, Luke 9:23-26, Phil. 4:4-5.

 

Be blessed in your understanding of God's word.

 

Love,

Holly