What Is Your "As For Me"? What Is The Source Of Your Satisfaction?

Passage Psalm 17:15:
   ¹⁵As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness 

What is your "as for me"?    David said in the Psalm 17 ..... "As for me" ..... "I will" .......behold thy face in righteousness.    "I shall" ..... be satisfied.......when "I awake" ..... with thy likeness.  

It's personal.   This walk.   This talk.   It's personal.   No one can walk it for you.   No one can experience it for you.   No one can make you do it or truly understand the "life" that comes from having a personal relationship with God.   Where God is no longer distant or just a story that you read about in the Bible.   Where you truly experience and feel His love and His kindness towards "you".   Where you run to Him when you are sick or hurting.   Where you run to Him when you have a need.   Where your total trust and total reliance is on Him.   

We have to get to a place where we say to everything and everyone around us ..... "as for me".    Where we understand that our outcome is a result of our decisions.   Our decision to serve Him.   Our decision to trust Him.   Our decision to love Him.  

It's not based on your upbringing or the challenges you face.   It's based on your trust and obedience to God and His word.    If God was to grant you one desire today.    The one thing that you want more than anything.   What would that desire be?   Would it even include Him?   Would it be to serve Him?   To get to know Him?   Or will it be totally self motivated and self initiated?   Would it be more of whatever it is that keeps you from Him and out of His will?  

How can you ask the one who gives to give you more of what keeps you from Him?   Check your motives.   Check your motivation.   Check your life.    Let your desire be like the Psalmist David to behold the face of God.    Behold means to look upon.....to gaze.....to comprehend.    Let your satisfaction come from being "like" Jesus.    Like means similar.   It means that something is related in appearance and nature.    

If you look in the mirror today......what or who are you "like"?    What is your appearance? Is the reflection that you see conducive to who and what God is?    Now stop and view yourself through the eyes of God.....
Does He see a reflection of who He is when He looks at you?  

The Psalmist David said .... "I" shall be satisfied when "I" awake in your likeness.    What is the source of your satisfaction?  

Worship For Today.....

"My Desire"

Ministered By Jeremy Camp