Today's Affirmation: The Lord fixes my heart towards Himself.

Today’s Affirmation: The Lord fixes my heart towards Himself.

Does God Speak? Most certainly. Does He speak as I expected Him to? Certainly not. I grew up loving and listening to Bill Cosby and so remember his Noah routine. My entire life I expected to hear that booming Bill Cosby voice to come out of the sky calling my name. Didn’t happen. I have cried out, spent hours on my knees seeking this voice and found disappointment that He remained silent. This silence made me question God’s existence and ponder why a great God would make things so difficult and not be clearer?

Do I have the answers to these now? No, but I have no doubt that God does speak to me. Have I “heard” a voice? I think so. Did it possess Bill Cosby’s booming pitch from above? No. Did it seem to come from the center of my being straight to my ear, yes. If I fix my not my eyes on God but HE fixes my heart on him, things begin to change.Yep, God is fixing me. He began to draw me near to fix my heart towards himself. Incredibly, as I began kneeling before Him and praising His name each morning before the sun arose I began to have “coincidences”. I have asked direct questions of Him and turned to His Bible for reading and found the very question that was in my heart. He has helped me to celebrate recovery over alcohol and tobacco and continues to reveal to me other things in me He needs to fix. Yes, He is fixing my heart.

Yesterday, He revealed to me another fix. I saw a woman dancing along the beach as she traveled along her way. I said I can’t believe she is dancing, that’s crazy. She is oblivious to everyone around her, what nerve. My wife, said so what, she may be exercising and what is so different than running? I said that is rediculous and found myself almost angry that this woman would be so arrogant to just dance across the waves in total disreguard to what people think of her.

Was she dancing to praise her God? Don’t know. Why do I care? Why do I worry what others think? Yep, He is fixing my heart towards Him. In my fourth day of this blog to I seek to please man and tell man what I think he would like to hear or do I dance and praise my God. Didn’t David dance in the streets and didn’t others think he was crazy?

My we dance and praise our God. May He continue to fix our hearts and speak to us in only ways He can. Through His holy word, through His Holy Spirit within us and through life. Dear woman whom I do not know. Thank you for dancing. I admire your courage and pledge to dance and praise my God today.

Thanks for continuing to fix me dear Lord.

Tom Raines