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Day 4: For the Joy

Anna Smit2 Comments
My favorite bench at our local forest, taken 26 June 2022, where I chose to obey my God’s prompting to lay aside my new devotional habit till later, to instead pen a card for dear friends. As I wrote for the pure joy of doing so, God’s Word flowed out of me and touched my own heart with the warmth of His Presence and my devotional time later, was even richer because of it.

How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!

Psalm 84:1 ESV

Today, I bless us to seek and find the wide open spaces of God’s grace for us. I bless us to rejoice and rest in Christ’s good and pleasant boundary lines for us. I bless us to awake to the childlike faith that is ours in Christ Jesus, to open our eyes in awe and wonder to the much higher plans and purposes of our God. I bless us to lay down our fear of man for a newborn faith in our God. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Write for the joy
You tell me
And oh the joy
I taste and see
Right here.

In Your 
Boundary lines
Safe and sound 
I find my heart 
Singing now

In unison
My breathing
Slowing to 
Gentleness 
Yielded in Spirit

And truth 
To reveal
Your mercy  
Comfort and 
Steadfast love 

Opening 
My eyes
To see through 
As You do
Unblinded

Undivided
My heart
Bound together 
In love
In the fear

Of the LORD
Awaking awe
And wonder 
A childlike 
Faith in me

Stirring me
To celebrate
Your sovereign 
Power in love's
Perfecting grace 

My weakness
The key
In Your hand
Unlocking
The door

To sup with You 
For the joy
Of Your reward
Salvation
And deliverance 

In Jesus' Name.