Watching for the Morning Candace D

A New Year & Ear Piercing

January 3rd, 2010
I love what my dear friend, Leah posted on New Year’s Day. “2010…It’s all Yours Jesus!!!” So simple, yet so wonderfully true! It’s all His anyway. I wonder why we even try to imagine we have anything to do with it. :) The truth is, if we are willing to give it all back to Him, we’ll be utterly blessed! So, I encourage all of you dear readers to commit your year to the Lord! Ask Him to lead your every step and be glorified in you more this year than He ever has before. He is faithful and He will hear you!
Pierce my ear, O Lord my God.
Take me to your door this day.
I will serve no other god.
Lord, I’m here to stay.
For you have paid the price for me.
With your blood you have ransomed me.
I will serve you eternally.
A free [wo]man I’ll never be.
 
As I was thinking about what to write on my New Year’s blog entry, I came across a writing penned by a young, single woman who loved the Lord, probably a lot like you and I. We’ll call her Daisy.
Daisy was having a sad day. She had entered her prayer closet with a broken, lonely heart. She contemplated the desires of her heart and the time that had elapsed since she had first “dreamed” these things. She felt disappointed and almost…cheated, as though God was smiling on all those around her but totally ignoring her. She said to the Lord through a few tears and with no sarcasm in her voice, “Lord…Shall I just let it all die? Do You want me to forget all my desires and not expect them any longer? Is that what You wish for me?”
Almost immediately, she heard a voice…so calm, so quiet, so real. “If I never performed any of them, dear child, would you still love Me? Would you abide in Me even then?” Two seconds did not escape until she found herself sobbing at His feet. And, she was somewhat surprised at her genuine answer.
“Oh Master….Yes! For, I have now become so dependant upon You that I would not be able to imagine my life without You. To think I could no longer walk by Your side would be a fate worse than the most horrific death! You see, Lord…I’m afraid that I could not ‘leave’ You even if I tried. You are too much a part of me now. You are in me, and I in You…and if I dare try to remove You from me, I would be utterly destroyed in the process, torn to bits. I cannot stop loving You now. You are no longer only my Master, but my Husband.”
After scooping her heart up off the floor and writing down her story, she lifted her wet face up in amazement that He had accomplished such devotion in her. It seemed so peculiar, as she knew how prone to wander she had always been. She knew her wicked heart and rebellious flesh. HOW had this happened? It’s then that God reminded her that she really had very little to do with it. She only asked Him to give her a consuming passion to serve and love Him all her days…and He did…and she was shocked! She left her room feeling so utterly satisfied, and her dreams seemed so insignificantly small in light of the truth; “I am my Beloved’s and He is mine”. She felt like a slave who served a mighty Master, that had been released only to come racing back with all her strength, begging Him to pierce her ear and place His sign of forever ownership upon her. And, He had done so a long time before. Daisy just hadn’t realized it yet.
 
Dear precious friend,
 
Are you worried and burdened about what the new year may bring? Do you dread to know that next year may be another year of “dreams left unfulfilled”? Are you focusing on what God can do for you or may choose not to do more than on His beautiful face?
This very minute, He longs to take away your slavery to all the “things” and even dreams that hold you captive and keep your attention. He wants to set you free with His perfect love, so that by His grace alone, you will be able to love Him completely, live in total surrender to Him, and enjoy Him in His fullness as Jehovah Ishi (God, My Husband). He wants you to experience Him as the satisfaction to all your empty places, making the dreams He has dreamed for you seem even sweeter when He fulfills them in His most perfect time and way. Won’t you ask Him to help you release all your dreams to Him? Perhaps, its not the first time. That’s okay. We come to the Throne of Grace often, as His sheep. He wants to fill you with Himself. He wants you to look upon Him with the eyes of a dove (which can only focus on one thing at a time and cannot be distracted by things in the peripheral vision). We love Him because He first loved us. We have no idea even how to love outside of Him. He is love. Won’t you ask Him to teach you afresh today? Won’t you long for Him more than anything else in 2010? He will do great things!
Someone once said that a slave was no longer a slave when they were given an option. We are no longer simply slaves. We are His Bride! A bride that loves Him from a pure, sanctified heart…a heart that finds eternal bliss in forever choosing to be His slave! We have not been forced into a relationship with Him. We walk with Him because He has given us a deep desire, along with much grace to do so. If you haven’t yet, won’t you let God “pierce your ears” today?
 
Happy 2010 in the Lord!
 
 
Psalm 40:6-8
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but my ears you have pierced, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require. Then I said, “Here I am, I have come-it is written about me in the scroll. I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”
Hosea 2:16-17,19-23
In that day, declares the LORD, you will call me ‘my husband’; you will no longer call me ‘my master’.
I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips; no longer will their names be invoked.

I will betroth you to me forever;
I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion. I will betroth you in faithfulness,
and you will acknowledge the LORD.

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