Shalom,
Today I want to share this from Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost For His Highest" devotional!
The secret [“friendship,” rv] of the Lord is with them that fear
Him. — Psalm 25:14
What is
the sign of a friend? That he tells you secret sorrows? No, that he tells you
secret joys. Many will confide to you their secret sorrows, but the last mark
of intimacy is to confide secret joys. Have we ever let God tell us any of His
joys, or are we telling God our secrets so continually that we leave no room
for Him to talk to us? At the beginning of our Christian life we are full of
requests to God, then we find that God wants to get us into relationship with
Himself, to get us in touch with His purposes. Are we so wedded to Jesus Christ’s
idea of prayer — “Thy will be done” — that we catch the secrets of God? The
things that make God dear to us are not so much His great big blessings as the
tiny things, because they show His amazing intimacy with us; He knows every
detail of our individual lives.
“…him
shall He teach in the way that He shall choose.” At first we want the
consciousness of being guided by God, then as we go on we live so much in the
consciousness of God that we do not need to ask what His will is, because the
thought of choosing any other will never occur to us. If we are saved and
sanctified God guides us by our ordinary choices, and if we are going to choose
what He does not want, He will check, and we must heed. Whenever there is
doubt, stop at once. Never reason it out and say — “I wonder why I shouldn’t?”
God instructs us in what we choose, that is, He guides our common sense, and we
no longer hinder His Spirit by continually saying — “Now, Lord, what is Thy
will?”
Here is Brandon Lake with "Coat Of Many Colors":
Shalom in Him!