Just some thoughts

In a discussion last night we talked of how it really is His story, that our lives are to be about Him and not focus on us  - to look upward and not inward.  While I see this is true, I’m also aware that His focus is on us, on me.  I kept thinking about the lyrics from Restless Love:

There's no shadow You won't light up

Mountain You won't climb up

Coming after me

There's no wall You won't kick down

Lie You won't tear down

Coming after me

How He’s willing to leave the ninety-nine – for me.

That I have been bought with an incredible price.

That I am now a daughter of The King.

I need to live my life “knowing” these things to be true.

I also remember reading about the Jewish word for prayer:  The Hebrew word l'hitpallel means to pray. The root word is pallel, which actually means to judge, clarify, differentiate or decide. In the reflexive tense of the word--l'hitpallel, the subject acts upon him/herself.

The idea that prayer, therefore, is about self-definition and establishing some level of personal inner clarity.  In a sense, to know one’s self.

I guess in some ways its that Lion and Lamb, justice and grace, thing  While they seem to be in opposition to each other  are really just two sides of the same coin.

It’s because of His amazing love for me, that I want my life to be for Him, to be about His plans and purposes – to be all about Him.