From Today's Daily Light...

I read this at my desk this morning before starting the work day...

“From the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard.”

Thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.”—The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.—Though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.—Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you.—“God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God.

You, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you. Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; listen to my plea for grace. In the day of my trouble I call upon you, for you answer me. (Dan. 10:12; Isa. 57:15; Ps. 51:17; Ps. 138:6; 1 Pet. 5:6; Jas. 4:6, 7; Ps. 86:5-7)

Upon reading just the first line, I found myself choking back tears.

From the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard.

On the way to work this morning I was thinking about prayer...and how little of it I've been doing lately. Truthfully, prayer is the spiritual discipline I have had the hardest time cultivating. I think I can't pray, I don't know what to pray, I don't have time to pray...and yet when I humble myself before my God and open my mouth I am always amazed at what pours out...both in substance and quantity.

It is like my soul had been pent up and suddenly there is a break and everything pours forth.

I had one of those moments in the car this morning.

From the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard.

This truth just blows me away! From the first day my words have been heard...those that I have allowed to come out of my mouth AND those I've kept pent up.

He also hears all of the horrible things I keep pent up (and let go) too.

The same truth that is amazingly awesome is also amazingly humbling.

postscript: I just had to put this in here. God is so amazingly sovereign and takes such good care of me (us)! I have to share this and give Him praise. After I posted this, I decided to go to our church website to see if this weekend's message was there. I didn't get to hear it because I had to leave church even before worship was done. The title of the message was "Time to Rediscover Prayer"! It is just comforting, overwhelming, challenging and so many other "ings" to me to see that, though I missed the teaching, the Lord kept me on the same page by stirring up the same types of thoughts in me, all the way out here in Baton Rouge!