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My God

             Of David.

In you, Lord my God, I put my trust. (Psalm 25:1)

 

but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you. (Jeremiah 7:23)

The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” (Zephaniah 3:17)

Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.” (John 19:22)

Have you ever heard (or seen) this: “Well, my God would never ____”?

Part of me says, “Well, I would never claim to own God.” God is God, after all, He is His own person. But David lays claim to Him.

But today’s verse makes it clear that there is a relationship involved. He is our God. Your God. My God. I’m hearing echoes of what I wrote about putting my heart into the care of God and of “I can’t identify myself as a Christian (fish on the bumper, cross pendent around the neck) because if I sin, I’ll humiliate God.”

I can’t ask God to claim me. What if I embarrassed Him? Today, I wonder if I struggle with the idea that I might be able to claim Him. What if He embarrasses me? What if He…rejoices over me with singing?

“No, shush, God. You don’t understand. I’m not as good as You think I am.”

And God quotes Pilate. He has the authority to declare over us what we cannot declare for ourselves. Doesn’t He have a right to rejoice over us if He wants? 

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