"I don't want your blessings Lord, I just want you..." were the lyrics of the worship song playing over and over. After which the pastor got up and rebuked the worship leader. "i don't know where you got that song," he said, "but the theology is all wrong."
And I was thanking him.
Beth Moore's study on Esther said a similar thing yesterday, and we all left agreeing with her.
It sounded so right. She said that we need to seek the Lord, and not the thing - not the baby, or the finances, or the healing.
I was saying "yes, yes. That's it. Just the Lord, not the thing."
But today my spirit is restless and uneasy saying, "uh uh." You know what?
You just can't have the Lord without having His blessings. He comes with his healing. He comes with his provision.
He is His blessings.
You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for ever more.
Psalm 16:11
You can't be dying of a disease and say, "I'm just going to seek the Lord and not the healing." You can't be impoverished and unemployed and say, "I'm just going to seek the Lord and not a job, or food!"
No. Does this make sense?
We have to be beware of the "leaven of the Pharisees" which says to strive in the flesh to please God, not to just desire God from the heart and pursue Him with a heart of love.
If we're going to God with our needs and wants, then we're in the right place.
Otherwise, we might think because of what Beth said, that we can't go to God with those requests, and we'll go somewhere else - we will strive on our own to fulfill our needs.
We're going to seek the blessings, that is our nature. It just depends on whether we go to God or to something or someone else.
I was going to be sharing her message: seek the Lord, and not the thing that you want, but then I realized that wasn't what I wanted to say.
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