The lesson for today was very clear as I was starting my devotional time. Trust and have faith in God’s Word for our daily living. The devotional message was built around Isaiah 58:11. The Lord will continually guide you and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your bones. The author goes on to say that our desire for instant gratification so often has us running ahead of this promise for our own selfish reasons. This can be in all kinds of areas including food, financial, social, sexual, relational fulfillments. God promises to meet all of our needs, but His timing doesn’t often match our own flesh desires.

The more I go into this year with the commitment I wrote in yesterday’s blog, the more I see the truth in today’s devotional message for myself. My timing is always needing to be surrendered. Trusting God’s timing is critical if I indeed want Jesus to be Lord of my entire life each and every day. God just never is done helping us see the ills of our flesh. We can’t know the beauty of God’s care if we put our own ahead of His timing. Today’s lesson!