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Where Do You Come Alive?
From Psalm 90:1-8; 13-17: Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You turn us back to dust, and say, "Turn back, you mortals." For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or like a watch in the night. You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning; in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. For we are consumed by your anger; by your wrath we are overwhelmed. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance. Turn, O Lord! How long? Have compassion on your servants! Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil. Let your work be manifest to your servants, and your glorious power to their children. Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and prosper for us the work of our hands— O prosper the work of our hands!
To think of a dwelling for some reason, takes my mind back to cartoons of the Flintstones. Not that they live in a cave, but they should have! Dwelling is a word that I seldom, if ever, use. We use home, or house, or whatever you may call the place where you "live." The question I ask is, Where do you come alive? For many of us it is our home. I laugh as I have seen how my grandchildren love their homes and how relaxed and carefree they become in them. Most of them relax immediately upon arriving home. They undress. Some put on comfortable clothes; others choose to stay undressed. They watch and dance to videos on television or on iPads; they yell at action on screens or laugh uncontrollably at the silliest things. In other words, they come alive!
Do you come alive in God? I've been amazed at the ways some truly do come alive in God in different settings, whether it be worship or study or prayer. It's a change of attitude because of gratitude or become hope becomes real on the inside and we can face all things that we are facing. This psalm is attributed to Moses, whose life we know all too well. Interesting infancy, raised as a prince of Egypt, murderer, fugitive, deliverer, prophet, and a man of God. He saw God face to face and did not die. In all that he did and encountered, he lived a life secure in knowing that in God he came alive. He knew God and and trusted and loved Him.
How about you? Do the external things affect your internal spiritual side? Or is it, as it should be, the spiritual side affects your external side? Come alive in God and you'll be alive and well to face all things.
PRAYER: God of the fullness of life, come alive in me, and le me come alive in You. In Christ Jesus I pray, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
Eradio Valverde
