Receiving - to take or accept something given.
Instruction - a spoken or written statement of what must be done, especially delivered formally, with official authority, or as an order.
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To receive wholeheartedly instruction(s) from the Lord requires one to give up self. We have to lay down our own beliefs, ideas, and desires and pick up His. Today, I feel as if I have been rebuked in love and yet “rebuked”, none the less. I’ve found myself dealing with temptations all month and it’s time to actually DEAL with those temptations. To do as God, my Father instructs and as Christ, my example, did while being tempted of the devil. “For it is written”… the Word of God reveals exactly what His statures and His thoughts are in every situation.
I must repent because I was instructed to do something this month and I started but did not finish. Now, I must be about my Father’s business and lay to rest all other distractions. I must die to self and flesh, forfeiting things I’d wish to have my way with and I must submit myself to the one who’s will and desires I’ve decidedly yielded to.
To receive instruction in the sense in which I find my self writing today is to receive inwardly, spiritually - the truth. It is the kind of “receiving” that leaves you hurting inside; but, also protects you from worse pain that would inevitably be experienced if the instructions were ignored. I’ve been disregarding what I know to be truth; thereby, playing with fire in a particular area. I now douse it with the water of the Word of God, asking forgiveness from the Loving Father who created me and vow to realign myself to the place of God that He has commanded. I love my Father and I trust His heart towards me, even when I can’t trust my own. I have to lay down my will and take on His, believing that truly He knows what’s best for me and desires I have only His BEST. I am resigned to wait on Him, trusting and hoping in Him alone to bring to pass all He’s promised. In the meantime, I’m resting in Him. Father, purify my heart and my thoughts, I pray. As David before me, I ask that you “search me, O God and know my heart; Try me and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting”. Psalms 139:23, 24 NKJV
~Debra P. Declouet
Posted By: Debra P. Declouet
Friday, October 24th 2008 at 7:24PM
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