Rest... It’s good to be still. After complaining (sorry God) for the last few months about being retired and bored, God in His mercy, opened my perspective, and now I am praying to stay in step with Jesus. God has enabled me to see new options so I pray to use the time He has granted me with His wisdom and His discernment. God knows I need to pause to praise and inquire, or else I will just become selfishly ambitious.
Reorientation... Impact Scriptures:
Deuteronomy 9:4-10 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
4 The Lord your God will drive them out to make room for you. When he does, don’t say to yourself, “The Lord has done it because I am godly. That’s why he brought me here to take over this land.” That isn’t true. The Lord is going to drive out those nations to make room for you because they are very evil. 5 You are not going in to take over their land because you have done what is right or honest. It’s because those nations are so evil. That’s why the Lordyour God will drive them out to make room for you. He will do what he said he would do. He made a promise to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 6 The Lord your God is giving you this good land to take as your own. But you must understand that it isn’t because you are a godly nation. In fact, you are stubborn.
Isaiah 55:8-12 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
8 “My thoughts are not like your thoughts.
And your ways are not like my ways,”
announces the Lord.t
9 “The heavens are higher than the earth.
And my ways are higher than your ways.
My thoughts are higher than your thoughts.
10 The rain and the snow
come down from the sky.
They do not return to it
without watering the earth.
They make plants come up and grow.
The plants produce seeds for farmers.
They also produce food for people to eat.
11 The words I speak are like that.
They will not return to me without producing results.
They will accomplish what I want them to.
They will do exactly what I sent them to do.
And your ways are not like my ways,”
announces the Lord.t
9 “The heavens are higher than the earth.
And my ways are higher than your ways.
My thoughts are higher than your thoughts.
10 The rain and the snow
come down from the sky.
They do not return to it
without watering the earth.
They make plants come up and grow.
The plants produce seeds for farmers.
They also produce food for people to eat.
11 The words I speak are like that.
They will not return to me without producing results.
They will accomplish what I want them to.
They will do exactly what I sent them to do.
12 “My people, you will go out of Babylon with joy.
You will be led out of it in peace.
You will be led out of it in peace.
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