Thou and Thou only!

Saturday, September 26. 2020 (5:53 a.m.)

Holy God, 

Lord how I thank You. We get to keep learning. You provide us with all the examples of how You would have us live. Teach me more now I pray.

I read of Your examples and the next thing I know I am singing ♪Be Thou My Vision♪ and ♪Be Thou Exalted♪ Lord God how truly I thank and praise You for Your examples to us.

You know the lives You would have us live. Filled with Your love. Sharing You with others. Oh teach us Your way Blessed God.

♪Be Thou My Vision, O Lord of my heart; naught be all else to me, save that Thou art - Thou my best thought, by day and by night; waking and sleeping, Thy presence my light♪ Oh yes Blessed God!

♪Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my true word; I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord. Thou my great Father, Thine own may I be, Thou in me dwelling and I one with Thee♪ Mm, Father. How I ask You to keep my sights on You.

♪Riches I heed not, nor vain, empty praise; Thou mine inheritance, now and always; Thou and Thou only first in my heart, High King of heaven, my treasure Thou art♪ Thou and Thou only. Oh yes Dearest God! Thou and Thou only!

♪High King of heaven, my victory won, may I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heaven’s sun! Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, still be my vision, O Ruler of all♪ Whatever befall? Yes! Lord… whatever befall! ♪Still be vision, O Ruler of all♪

Oh most Dear and Blessed Father God, I long to live this day letting go of the fears that have held be bound all these years. What would it be to truly live and love without fear?

Your Word again gives us the examples! 1 John 4:18, “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear is by suspicion, but he who fears is not grown up in love” (Aramaic Bible in Plain English).

Grow me up in Your love Dearest Lord!

Illustrated Bible Handbook has a section titled Chapter 4:7-21. God’s Love: Source and Example. Under the subsection “God Is Love; 4:16-18.” we learn “John says that as we grow in love, fears that God will punish us for wrongdoing diminish (cf. Rom. 13:8-10).”

As I confer with these verses I am reminded “Love Fulfills God’s Requirements”. Yes!

Illustrated Bible Handbook instructs, “God is concerned with far more than good citizenship! God is building a new community; a colony of righteousness, settled in the dark and twisted world of lost men. This community is not marked off by its ideals or even its rules and high standards: it is marked off by a deep love for one another which makes rules irrelevant, for ‘love does no harm to the neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law’ (10).”

Oh that I would truly come to love as You originally designed us!

“Paul closes with an urgent call to his readers to awake to the importance of the present time. God calls us, now, to clothe ourselves with Christ, and to build His new community of love.”

Make it so Blessed God. Make me so!

I love You. I need You. I want You. I ask You. Do all You must in, with, by, through and for me that I am unable to do on my own. Thank You. Praise You. Amen.

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