The Daily Invitation
Every day we have an opportunity to discover more about God and respond to his invitation to live in love and experience freedom. The Daily Invitation outlines the many ways Scripture calls us to know and follow God. By reflecting on these promises, believers are called to receive God’s give of grace, seek him earnestly, and surrender their lives.
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To Know The Only True God
Can I ever fully know the depths of God’s love? Of course not! This is an unsearchable aspect of God’s nature. Yet as I contemplate the grace of God, his mercy toward me, his sacrifice on the cross, his presence in my life, and many other things I cannot grasp, I grow deeper in my conviction that God is love. I can be veiled to the fullness of God’s love but still grow deeper in my knowledge of his love. It is in my pursuit of such fullness that I move forward at all.
Praise Him Every Day
This is why the discipline of praise matters. It keeps us under the flow of faith so that we can keep living in confidence. It’s totally appropriate to put your request before the Lord, unsure of how it will be resolved, and give God thanks for everything else you can think of. Maybe one day we will mature to the point of thanking God even for the suffering, but I think the practice of praise begins with learning to see the windows of gratitude in every day.
Living Intercession
Perhaps if we close off from the world and live in a bubble, we could hide from the evil of the world around us (although there’s no telling what iniquity might be lurking within us out of our sight). Yet John seems to show a picture of victory that is unique to the believer. Faith in Jesus brings authority over the schemes of the enemy.
I Sought The Lord
Seek him in your fears and let your life be the Psalm 34:4 testimony: “I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.”
God Knows What You Need
Regarding the day-to-day things we need, we trust the Father to provide and do our best to follow his voice and live in the truth obediently. If we can trust God to lead us into safety and stability, we can focus on seeking his kingdom. And the closer we get to the kingdom, the more open we are for the provisions God gives.
Trusting In God’s Salvation
On that day when Christ returns in glory, we will rejoice that our hope and confidence was not an empty prayer. We will declare that God is good, faithful, and just. We will stand in the light of his presence while the sun and moon fade away like a dull glow. That will be a glorious day.
Majesty
When we see the glory of God, nothing else matters. When I stand before God at the end of my life, his holiness and beauty will be so astounding that I’ll be entirely overcome by wonder.
Believing Is Receiving
Even when you fall down, call on God to help you. You might fall 1,000 times, but scripture already tells us in Psalms 34:19 NLT that The righteous person faces many troubles, but the Lord comes to the rescue each time.”
Do You Believe in God?
It might sound ridiculous to ask this question, but it is soberingly possible to drop our belief in God miles behind us on the journey of faith and proceed based on our religious striving alone.
Psalm 121:1-2 | Look Up
So often, when facing trials and struggles, we turn to our own devices and solutions to find a way out. It’s possible that our knee-jerk reaction to difficulty is to think that we are less worthy of a relationship with God.
James 3:17-18 | The Wisdom From Above
These simple tools may be some of the most explicit directions for a life of abiding. When I read them, it seemed like the list was not exactly what I would have come up with. Still, if these are the directions for showing peace, what kind of freedom would be available to those who respond and obey?
2 Corinthians 4:18 | The Unseen Things
The promise of the unseen glory and the joy of salvation drove him to the cross. Similarly, when our hope is in Christ, fixed on the unseen things, we find the greatest capacity to live sacrificially in our physical reality. All our physical demonstrations of faith are unto the unseen things, namely the things I’d heaven, but also from this unseen realm.
John 10:27 | Hearing God
I wonder if this is because hearing God’s voice isn’t a skill to develop as much as a gift to unwrap. What if hearing God was something that we just have? What if this gift was as fundamental to our existence as breathing in and out?