Day 51: Meet With Him

Reading: Psalm 24:1-10

Meeting with The Lord is an awesome privilege and should never be taken lightly. He has opened up the door to meet with Him, but we must check our hearts and minds before we come to Him and expect answers. A clean heart and pure mind will show us the way to Him. When we come into His presence with the right motives and a heart open to His will, the power will be all the more great. We need to acknowledge that God is great and that He is the Almighty, and the King of Glory, as David does throughout this Psalm. When we are able to humble ourselves to Him, He will make our desires fit His good and perfect will. Meeting with God will truly be a time of awe.


Reading: Mark 5:21-6:6a

Coming to Jesus requires an act of faith. We see many instances of faith of being necessary for healing and for God's work to happen in our lives. When Jesus is moving through the crowds, a very sick woman longs to get to Him so she can be healed. When Jesus feels the healing power leave Him, He demands to know who touched Him. Because of this woman's great faith, she is made well just by touching Him, and Jesus announces this to her.
When Jesus is told that the little girl is dead, everyone seems hopeless around Him, but He tells hem not to worry, just to have faith. When He gets to her, she rises right up as if she were sleeping. Again, faith plays a huge roll.
We see what happens when the opposite happens as Jesus visits His own hometown and is rejected. Since the faith is so low, the reading tells us that Jesus is only able to heal a couple of the sick in His town, and He is amazed at their lack of faith.
Faith is required when asking God to work in our lives. Simply asking and trusting He will work in our lives is all it takes. Just have faith!


Reading: Exodus 27:1-28:43

As we continue to read about the complexity of the Tabernacle that needed to be built in order for people to meet with God, we can begin to appreciate how Jesus made it easier for us to come to Him. Because of the blood He shed for us, "the veil was torn" and we are no longer separated from speaking to God with our own hearts and mouths. The Israelites had to prepare all of these fancy specifications in order to meet with God, and they still needed to go through a priest to talk to Him. Though this may make us appreciate coming to God a little more, we can give thanks that we have straight access to Him. Jesus came to close the gap, remove the curtain, wipe out the rituals and the rules, and offer Himself through humility to us, so we might have a relationship with Him. How awesome is that? Take advantage of the simple way we have been given to meet with God.


Meeting with God is no light task. We can go to Him with requests, to pour our hearts out to Him, to thank Him, ask for advice, whatever. He is longing for relationship with us. Go to Him in awe and with faith. He has made a way for us!