I wait for your salvation, O LORD.
Genesis 49:18 (ESV)
Father God, I am struck how, in the midst of Jacob’s spiritual exercise that he stops and asks You for Your guidance and deliverance. Between pronouncing a divine and prophetic blessing for Dan and Gad he stops and asks for You to intervene. Was it because he felt the weight of what You were saying through him about his sons, whom he loved dearly? Or was it that he was he just overwhelmed in the moment?
As I thought about this, the question came to my mind, how many times have I been steeped in doing Your will and carrying out Your purposes in my life, and had this uneasy sense, this feeling that I was being tugged in one direction or another, and yet because of the “religious significance” of the moment plowed on ahead? This morning I am reminded that it is Your Spirit…
Father, I pray for a spirit that is sensitive to the movement of Your Holy Spirit in me and around me. Lord, don’t let me be so focused on what I am doing, whether for You or just my life in general, that I am not heeding to when You are calling me to press the “pause button” and stop to hear from You. As I immerse myself everyday in Your Word make my heart receptive to all the ways You are getting my attention, and don’t allow me to miss Your voice.
Lord, it is my heart’s chief aim and most intense desire to be in Your presence, All of this is for naught without You in the midst of it. So I walk into this day with my eyes and ears open and my heart attentive to You. LORD, I wait for your salvation, even as You use me to bless others in Jesus’ Name.