Workmanship

Good Morning, Papa God! 

As I have been pondering the depths of Your names for several weeks, there are two names of which I have been trying to absorb the truth within the depths of my soul … Yahweh Mekodishkem and Yahweh Tsidkenu. They really do go together so well as it pertains to me. They clearly reflect to me that I can do nothing of any spiritual significant (or otherwise really) without You. You make me holy (set apart, consecrated). You set me apart for Your use. Just as each tool in the temple was consecrated and holy for Your use, so am I. You set the holy and consecrated pathway before me, and I travel Your designated pathway by Your guidance. And then, because You know that I am a sinner by nature, You then became my righteousness. You made me right with You through the blood of Christ on the cross. Your righteousness, Your right judgment within me, gives me the ability to make wise decisions as I travel Your highway of holiness. You created me in Christ Jesus as Your workmanship for the good works I will do that You prepared beforehand for me to walk in. You have been speaking such truth to my soul in these past few days to show me definitively how I am to be walking out my days. I am Yours! Your consecrated tool! So, since You have set me apart and consecrated me as a tool You will use and You have given me a holy pathway in which to walk under Your guidance. This tool, this vessel, this child submits to Your will for me and Your plan for me. I know You will guide me with Your wisdom as to when and what and where and how as You show me the works You want me to do. I wait … I trust … I yield. I know You are taking me deeper into You than my own feet could ever just wander into and find. It is my determined purpose to know You, the very wonders of Your person, more deeply, more intimately, more strongly.

My determined warrior,

You have been fighting the good fight, struggling within and without, to get to this place in your walk with Me. And, oh what a glorious place it is! You are now at peace within because you have yielded to Me that which you do not know and can’t understand and can’t figure out. You have ceased striving for all the answers and plan. You are now allowing Me to be God in your life and recognizing My Sovereignty. You have known My Sovereignty intellectually and as it relates to the world, but you have struggled with My Sovereignty over your life. This season of has been about letting go of your need to know the plan and the details and next steps, in other words, your sense of control. You have arrived, My child, with letting go of controlling outcomes. This why you are at peace.

(2 Cor.5:21; Psa.23:3-4; Eph.2:10; 1 Cor.6:19-20; Psa.73:23-26)