YOU are divine ...

beth moore calls them ‘God-stops’. in the past i have called them ‘God-incidences’. whatever you call them, these are times in my life that God makes His voice clearly known through the repetition of themes. i open my Bible, a book, a magazine, turn on the TV, listen to radio, have a conversation, and they all seem to be saying the same thing ... and they all seem to be speaking directly to me. this is actually the way in which i hear from God the most, and it seems that the more i make note of them, the more frequent they become.

point in case - after i posted my blog on tuesday, i went back and looked at the last one i had posted, and laughed when i read the verse with which i concluded:

i tell you the truth, you can say to this mountain, ‘may you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen. but you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart. (mark 11:23)

without realizing it, those words set me on a course of deeper belief this summer. as old wounds were revisited, God revealed long-standing areas of doubt in my heart. the ‘believing God‘ study could not have come at a more appropriate time. it was no longer enough for me just to know about and believe in God. for those hurts to be truly healed, i had to come to a place of actually believing God - that He is who He says is, and that i am who He says i am.

so then i started to write thursday’s post about faith & performance, but without much direction. lucky for me, that night’s dinner conversation was exactly what i needed to finish it off. i found myself in 1 peter 1:3, the first part of that verse being something that God has been hammering into my head for over a year now, then went on to cite verses 5 - 7 in relation to faith directing performance, rather than our performance leading to faith.

then, this morning i felt like i was supposed to pull out my ‘streams in a desert’ devotional, something i haven’t done in quite some time. i couldn’t help but laugh when i saw that today’s verse was 1 peter 1:4, “because of His glory & excellence, He has given us His great and precious promises. these are the promises that enable you to share His divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.”

again, i am being reminded of the need to revisit the promises He has made to me, which actually requires another post. but the main point remains that because we know Him, He has given us His promises, and because of His promises, WE HAVE HIS DIVINE NATURE!!!, and are empowered to live victorious lives. how cool is that?!

if we have access to a divine nature, we are certainly hard-pressed to be remembering the promises that give us that access. what have you been promised???