Pecking on God’s Window
Psalm 5:2-3
Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
Meet Bruce. He’s our pet rooster. Now, he didn’t start out to be our pet rooster. Long story short, we started out with a brood… and have ended up with just Bruce.
Bruce and I have developed a kind of relationship. I never knew how social chickens are. All our domestic animals know exactly where I am in the house when I’m home; in particularly, if I’m at the computer. The other morning, I was in my office, working on my medical transcription when I heard a peck, peck on my window. I turned around to find Bruce pecking on my window and when I turned around and said, “Hi, Bruce… How are you today?” He seemed satisfied and went on his way. He didn’t want to come in… he just wanted me to acknowledge his presence. Funny, isn’t it?
Now, Bruce isn’t the only one who comes to that window to let me know, he’s there. While Bruce just comes to make sure I’m aware of his presence, the cats and dog will come for other reasons. Sometimes they want in so they can have security of the protection of the house. Sometimes they’re hungry or thirsty and want to come in where the food and water is. Sometimes, they want to come in just to lay close by my side and feel comforted by my presence.
As I got to thinking about all this, I began thinking of my relationship with the Lord. Jeremiah says in Lamentations 3:22-24 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. One of the things that awes me about my Lord, is that He extends His tenderness to me daily. No matter how badly I blew it yesterday, or even just a few minutes ago, He stands ready to extend to me His grace. I do not know about you but it seems I often blow it during the day – during the week. I want to be a “good” Christian example. I want to walk with the Lord in such a way, as people would be able to see Him in me. Yet, being human, I only do fine until I get out of bed. (Sometimes, I am not sure about that!)
I am often amazed and delighted when I find how well the Bible – Old Testament and New Testament intertwine. For instance, when God took His children, the nation of Israel into the wilderness, He gave them manna each day to eat. This was not just to provide for their physical hunger, but to provide them with a daily reminder of the glory of His presence. In the New Testament in John 6, Jesus tells the Pharisees that He is the Bread of Life (manna from Heaven). God wants to have a daily relationship with us.
Can I be honest with you? I have often blown having that daily time with my Lord for any number of reasons. When I do, my day seems to spiral down out of control and I always feel a little awkward trying to come back into His presence the next time. I mean, why would God want to spend time with me when I completely blew Him off? If it was me, and my daughter or even my husband chose not to talk to me in the morning, I would be hurt and I, being human, would want them to hurt as much as they hurt me. Yet, God is not a man to react as we do. He so desires to have a daily relationship with us that He will start over each day, fresh and new. He will refresh our relationship, our companionship each morning when we come to Him and acknowledge to Him that we blew it yesterday.
If we refuse to come and acknowledge that we blew it, the reason we blew it , and then spend time with Him, we are like Bruce. Pecking on God's window just to say, “God, I really don’t want to come in… I just want you to know I’m here.”
However, we can be like the cats or dog and stand before His window and acknowledge our sin, acknowledge our pride, acknowledge our fear, and ask God to cover it. We can acknowledge our need of Him and He will let us back into His Room of Relationship. When He lets us back into His Room of Relationship, His mercies and compassions are brand new. The Lord is our portion… Jesus Christ is our manna. When we come into His Room of Relationship, we are reminded all over again of the glory of His presence and that there's no better place to be.
What about you? Have you, like me, blown your time with the Lord off? Have you then gone through the day feeling off-kilter? Are you “pecking on God’s window” just to say, “Hey, God, I’m still here” because you’re afraid you can’t come back into His presence? Have you allowed pride or fear to keep you from standing before His window acknowledging your sin and asking Him to allow you back into His Room of Relationship?
Let me reassure you, God’s mercies and compassions are new every morning. God is the God of new beginnings each day. Won’t you stand at His window today? Confess what it was that kept you from His presence recently and ask to be let back into His Room of Relationship? He’s waiting there for you.
Molly Winter
Col. 1:9-10
My Comments: How often I have allowed pride to keep me from coming back to God. I’m tired of confessing the same things over and over, so I just won’t bother. It’s a kind of pride that says, I just can’t keep admitting doing the same thing again. I’ll just have to do without God’s presence, but He wants me back even more than I want His fellowship... because He LOVES me!!! How incredible. Molly has done a wonderful job of expressing my own failures in this message. I just have to go again, knock on the window and let Him bring me back into His presence.
Psalm 5:2-3
Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
Meet Bruce. He’s our pet rooster. Now, he didn’t start out to be our pet rooster. Long story short, we started out with a brood… and have ended up with just Bruce.
Bruce and I have developed a kind of relationship. I never knew how social chickens are. All our domestic animals know exactly where I am in the house when I’m home; in particularly, if I’m at the computer. The other morning, I was in my office, working on my medical transcription when I heard a peck, peck on my window. I turned around to find Bruce pecking on my window and when I turned around and said, “Hi, Bruce… How are you today?” He seemed satisfied and went on his way. He didn’t want to come in… he just wanted me to acknowledge his presence. Funny, isn’t it?
Now, Bruce isn’t the only one who comes to that window to let me know, he’s there. While Bruce just comes to make sure I’m aware of his presence, the cats and dog will come for other reasons. Sometimes they want in so they can have security of the protection of the house. Sometimes they’re hungry or thirsty and want to come in where the food and water is. Sometimes, they want to come in just to lay close by my side and feel comforted by my presence.
As I got to thinking about all this, I began thinking of my relationship with the Lord. Jeremiah says in Lamentations 3:22-24 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. One of the things that awes me about my Lord, is that He extends His tenderness to me daily. No matter how badly I blew it yesterday, or even just a few minutes ago, He stands ready to extend to me His grace. I do not know about you but it seems I often blow it during the day – during the week. I want to be a “good” Christian example. I want to walk with the Lord in such a way, as people would be able to see Him in me. Yet, being human, I only do fine until I get out of bed. (Sometimes, I am not sure about that!)
I am often amazed and delighted when I find how well the Bible – Old Testament and New Testament intertwine. For instance, when God took His children, the nation of Israel into the wilderness, He gave them manna each day to eat. This was not just to provide for their physical hunger, but to provide them with a daily reminder of the glory of His presence. In the New Testament in John 6, Jesus tells the Pharisees that He is the Bread of Life (manna from Heaven). God wants to have a daily relationship with us.
Can I be honest with you? I have often blown having that daily time with my Lord for any number of reasons. When I do, my day seems to spiral down out of control and I always feel a little awkward trying to come back into His presence the next time. I mean, why would God want to spend time with me when I completely blew Him off? If it was me, and my daughter or even my husband chose not to talk to me in the morning, I would be hurt and I, being human, would want them to hurt as much as they hurt me. Yet, God is not a man to react as we do. He so desires to have a daily relationship with us that He will start over each day, fresh and new. He will refresh our relationship, our companionship each morning when we come to Him and acknowledge to Him that we blew it yesterday.
If we refuse to come and acknowledge that we blew it, the reason we blew it , and then spend time with Him, we are like Bruce. Pecking on God's window just to say, “God, I really don’t want to come in… I just want you to know I’m here.”
However, we can be like the cats or dog and stand before His window and acknowledge our sin, acknowledge our pride, acknowledge our fear, and ask God to cover it. We can acknowledge our need of Him and He will let us back into His Room of Relationship. When He lets us back into His Room of Relationship, His mercies and compassions are brand new. The Lord is our portion… Jesus Christ is our manna. When we come into His Room of Relationship, we are reminded all over again of the glory of His presence and that there's no better place to be.
What about you? Have you, like me, blown your time with the Lord off? Have you then gone through the day feeling off-kilter? Are you “pecking on God’s window” just to say, “Hey, God, I’m still here” because you’re afraid you can’t come back into His presence? Have you allowed pride or fear to keep you from standing before His window acknowledging your sin and asking Him to allow you back into His Room of Relationship?
Let me reassure you, God’s mercies and compassions are new every morning. God is the God of new beginnings each day. Won’t you stand at His window today? Confess what it was that kept you from His presence recently and ask to be let back into His Room of Relationship? He’s waiting there for you.
Molly Winter
Col. 1:9-10
My Comments: How often I have allowed pride to keep me from coming back to God. I’m tired of confessing the same things over and over, so I just won’t bother. It’s a kind of pride that says, I just can’t keep admitting doing the same thing again. I’ll just have to do without God’s presence, but He wants me back even more than I want His fellowship... because He LOVES me!!! How incredible. Molly has done a wonderful job of expressing my own failures in this message. I just have to go again, knock on the window and let Him bring me back into His presence.
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