TUESDAY, April 6, 2010

YOU ARE THE APPLE OF MY EYE (Charlie Hamilton)

Lord, I long to know Your purpose

To know my destiny with You

Here in Your presence in the fullness

Of the joy I’ve found in You

Jesus, You’re my heart’s desire

Only You can satisfy

Jesus, I’ll forever love You

You are the apple of my eye

You’re my hope and my desire

Every dream has now come true

Here in the loving arms of Jesus

Oh Abba Father, I love You

Good morning, Lord Jesus.  I lift up my eyes unto the hills where my help comes from.  You are Holy, even when the darkness surrounds my life.  I look outside right now and it is still dark.  I love to watch as the sun arises and the world seems to “wake up”.  Sometimes I go outside to get something out of the car or something like that in the dark and somehow I am more acutely aware of the dark.  It seems somehow “kinda scary”.  I pray under my breath as I walk in the “darkness”.  I sometimes think there might be something in the dark that I can’t see that might “get me” (so to speak). 

What is the purpose of darkness anyway?  The world was totally dark and You spoke, and “then there was light”.   The biggest purpose of night is rest and restoration as I see it.  In the natural order of nature, the way life was created to function, dark is the time to rest and restore the body.  That is a good thing.  In the physical world, there are creatures of night that are still moving around while we rest.  Of course you know that I am going to take this information and apply it to our Spiritual life.  God is the Lord of the light and the darkness.  He never sleeps or slumbers.  When we are in the dark times, He is awake and Lord over everything.  He gives us rest, He restores us.  We don’t have to be afraid of the creatures that stir in the dark.  He is our Hiding Place. 

I will trust in You, let the weak say I am strong in the strength of the Lord.  I am strong because He has caused me to rest.  He has watched over me as I sleep, nothing can harm me.  The creatures of the dark might rise up against me, but I can lay in peace knowing that My Father is everywhere all the time.  I can be assured that He is working in my behalf, I am the apple of His eye.  There is security in knowing that He dispels the darkness when it is time.  I can awake to a bright Son that rises in my life.  I will follow that light, I will listen.  Lord, I dedicate this day to You.  I will not hide from the light, I will run to it, for I know there is safety there.  It is easier to see the things that hide in the dark as the light exposing these things.  Today I am

Shining the light under my bed,

Mary Ann