Anyway to the point, this morning I woke up quite annoyed. My brother called me at 8am... -.- I usually don't wake up until around 9:30 everyday and today I was planning on sleeping in till about 10:30. So I was upset, especially because his phone call was about something sort of pointless. On top of that my roommates were up around 8am, actually earlier, getting ready, I know they weren't being loud on purpose but they weren't being quiet on purpose either. Which led to me laying in bed trying to get in that last 2 hours of rest before I started the day but failing completely leaving me aggravated and leaving my mind racing with thoughts on the weekend.
SO, I just decided to wake up. Might as well. I actually like waking up early, there is so much more of the day to enjoy! I really am a morning person! I love the morning, and the feeling of starting the day on a clean slate, anything can happen, that's beautiful to me!
I was a little sluggish but then I remembered... COFFEE. My first love! I made a cup, toasted a bagel and grabbed my bible and my journal.
I am doing She Reads Truth devotional on Giving Thanks, it had been pretty good so far, a part of me believed the Lord woke me up for a specific reason, just to draw near to him before anything to let him touch me and all that good stuff. But another part of me doubted that could happen with this particular devotional because it had just been average the past 3 days.
This was only one of the 4 scriptures the devotional was focused on. The topic of the day was "Giving thanks in stress". Immediately I was like, alright God you think you're funny?
If you know me, if you read this blog, you know I am stressed extremely easily. It is partially my fault, I fight for control, I put all my eggs in one basket and I just let anxiety rule me blah blah blah.
BUT, this week I have had it pretty easy, like I haven't felt any MAJOR stress and I was riding smooth! So when I saw it was about stress I was like really God, I'm not even stressed what the heck, why didn't you give this to me LAST week or something! But this was perfect timing (of course!).
"Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink-- even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk-- it's all free! Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? Why pay for food that does you no good? Listen, and I will tell you where to get food that is good for the soul!
Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen for the life of your soul is at stake, I am ready to make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the mercies and unfailing love that I promised to David.: - Isaiah 55:1-3 NIV
“Hey there! All who are thirsty,
come to the water!
Are you penniless?
Come anyway—buy and eat!
Come, buy your drinks, buy wine and milk.
Buy without money—everything’s free!
Why do you spend your money on junk food,
your hard-earned cash on cotton candy?
Listen to me, listen well: Eat only the best,
fill yourself with only the finest.
Pay attention, come close now,
listen carefully to my life-giving, life-nourishing words.
I’m making a lasting covenant commitment with you,
the same that I made with David: sure, solid, enduring love. Isaiah 55:1-3 MSG
Both of these versions are just great and I really captured a lot of Gods truth through this. Sit back and read it like 4 times, pray on it. He'll show you too!
I was, obviously, referencing Matthew Henry's commentary to receive more clarification on this scripture.
One of the first things God showed me was; thirst.
I always come to God first with a thirst and hunger and just by crying out to how much I need him everyday. I heard a pastor say this is the best way to start off your time with God. Tell him how much you need him and unworthy you really are. I started doing this and it is so beautiful.
God through this scripture tells us this is really the only qualification and requirement he has for those that come to him; thirst! Pride will only divert your attention to God. Not only that but being thirsty for God is a response to his grace. His word asks: "Are you penniless?" "Is anyone thirsty?" "All who are (thirsty); come". But you couldn't know if you are thirsty if you haven't experienced his grace. You couldn't experience his grace if you are prideful.
"Where God gives grace, he first gives a thirsting after it; and, where he has given a thirsting after it, he will give it."- Henry
This response isn't something we necessarily choose to have. His grace is sweet and perfect and undeniable. If thirst isn't the response, then grace wasn't the gift.
His faithfulness is unwavering no matter HOW unfaithful I am to him, and that is something else that was confirmed in this scripture!
We literally spend our life savings on expensive drinks, water, wine, whatever, to only be thirsty again right after. What kind of foolishness is this?! "Why do you spend your money on food that does not give you strength?" " Why do you spend your money on junk food, your hard -earned cash on cotton candy?" We spend our lives on sin y'all. We spend and spend and spend for pleasure, for literally a second. Or literally a day, maybe even a lifetime. But think to the future, think to eternity. We spent it all to go to hell? To miss out on Jesus and life?
We're so unfaithful with the life he gives, we spend it on things that we think will fill our God-shaped void... BUT; Jesus. Jesus is so faithful to us and loving and kind that he gives a way OUT. He says "Listen to me. Eat only the best and fill yourself with only the finest" "Come with your ears wide open". He straight up tells us there is more than this. He straight up opens the door and pulls us in. He straight up rocks our world, gives us a feast for our souls
This is so beautiful to me. This is so fresh and just great! He is faithful even when we spend our lives on things we know wont satisfy. Even when disregard his grace and miss out on the quenching of our thirst. He is so sweet and kind and gives us mercy and unfailing love.
So the point is, don't be ashamed of #thirstythursday lol. Truly receive Gods grace on your life and respond with a thirst for him rather than spending and technically wasting all you have in a drought.
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