Psalm 63:3-4 –” Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.  ⁴ So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name, I will lift up my hands.”

My heart overflowed as I read, prayed, pondered, and considered the Word.   The Psalmist said in Psalm 63:3-4 that the loving-kindness of God is better than life.   Think about how God’s love, mercy, and grace are more valued than life.  Do we really see that, receive that, and embrace that?  Seriously?

If we do, our lives are shaped by His purpose and presence.  He becomes the consuming passion of our lives.  Our lives are then lived as sojourners with a singular purpose—His Kingdom.

1 Thessalonians 5 is a powerful discourse of instruction, warning, comfort, and hope.  Thessalonians 5:16-24 lists how we are to live and what attitudes we are to develop.

• Joyfulness
• Prayerfulness
• Thankfulness
• Spirit-filled and Spirit-led
• Receptive of the Prophetic
• Giving due diligence to what we see, hear, and do
• Abstain from evil

In verse 8, we are enjoined to put on the heart covering of faith and love.  Faith cannot operate outside love.  Also, our head covering is to be the Hope of Salvation. In this condition, our hearts are covered with faith and love, and our minds are filled with the Hope of Salvation.   We are to have Hope, which is eager expectation, not wishful thinking.

Knowing God should be our consuming passion.  We know about God and struggle in life with issues, events, desires, and people. When we know Him, and He becomes more important than Life, we stop struggling and rest in Him.  It is not a lackadaisical attitude of whatever will be will be but perfect peace that only comes through trust and fellowship with Him.

My desire is God, and that takes priority over everything.   My earnest desire is that those I love know God.  I am driven to bring the light to as many as possible.   One way we bring light is by walking in the light.  Today, I pray that God will manifest Himself through you so powerfully that people seek God.

He is with you, in you, and desires to empower you.  So, bask in His Presence and enjoy this day He has given each of us!