Shadow of Your Wings...

This morning has been awesome!  

One thing I am a big fan of doing (and I would recommend everyone trying it) is praying through Scripture.  Our early Christian  parents practiced this discipline and had a name for it - calling it "lectio divina".  There is a great article about this practice at the following link 

http://prayerfoundation.org/lectio_divina.htm 

Anyway - while I believe it is possible to pray through any section of Scripture, I have found that the richest section of Scripture to practice this discipline is through the Wisdom Literature.  So, every morning, I open up to a random Psalm or Proverb and spend time praying through that section.  This morning I opened to Ps. 17 - and as I was praying God revealed some awesome truths to me that I wanted to share.

1.  We are the apple of God's eye!  Verse 8 was powerful as I prayed and I asked God to keep me as the apple of His eye, I realized that too often, I don't live or think of myself as the apple of His Eye!  God blessed me this morning by showing me that He truly does cherish me.  He came, lived, suffered and died, simply for love.  I can do, and have done nothing to earn His love.  He offers it out of the kindness, graciousness and genuine love He has for His Creation.  I am the apple of His eye, because I am.  What a blessing it was to hear that this morning.  

2.  As I prayed the next line in this verse, God went to work in me.  I prayed that God would hide me in the shadow of His wings... and the Rhema began!!!

- In His shadow - I am hidden from the things that seek to destroy my life

- In His shadow - I am ensuring that He is bigger than myself  I cannot be in His shadow if I have exalted myself above God

- In His Shadow - I am trusting Him to look out for me, protect me and keep me safe

- In His Shadow - I am close to Him

- In His Shadow - I am not able to follow my own shadow, or go my own way

- In His Shadow - I am able to rest and find comfort

I am so quick in life to do things my way, to rely on my understanding and to follow my ow shadow, but what if - I rested in the shadow of His Wings?  What if I let God be as big as He wants to be?  So big that I am consumed and unable to discern where I would go by myself because His shadow is everywhere I turn.  That's where I want to be, that's how I want to rest and that's how I want to run this race, in the shadow of His wings!

God also blew my mind in Numbers - but that would be a whole different post and maybe that will come later, but for now, I am content to rest in the Shadow of His Wings!

Are you???