Take My Breath Away...

One thing have I asked of the LORD,
that will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the LORD
and to meditate in his temple.
Psalm 27:4

I will never forget at my wedding reception someone said to me "Wow, your wife is so beautiful...and my response to them (which was recorded on video) was, "Yea I was really surprised." Now I know that might sound really bad! But hear me out. What I really meant by that statement was this ...when I saw her coming down the isle of that church I was simply blown away by her beauty...she simply took my breath away!

Today I was looking at what it means to pray with adoration as one of the key components of my prayer life. Adoration simply means beholding or meditating on who God is. Adoration lifts my eyes & heart towards heaven & allows me to lose my breath in the glory of who God is! The Psalmist David asks the Lord for one thing here in Psalm 27... "that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life"... so that he may "behold the beauty of the Lord..." What I believe David was asking for here was this...God take my breath away....I have seen your glory...I have seen who you are and Lord there is nothing that compares to you...there is nothing else that can satisfy me!

As I sit here this morning I am ashamed to say that I have allowed a lot of other things in this world to take my breath away. I know today that I am still way to busy filling up my life with the things that really don't matter. Honestly it is not the "bad" or sinful things that draw me away from God. Praise God I am not hooked on drugs or porn ... but the longer I live as a Christ follower I really see the greatest danger in my pursuit of God being those things that are "good." Those things that really don't matter ... those things that just don't add really any eternal value to my life. Man I am still so self centered in so many areas of my life...and my desire is that God would simply take my breath away! It's amazing what can take your breath away when your willing to stop & be still & disconnect from the busyness and rapid pace of life that we live today. Be still today and know that He is GOD!

When was the last time God took your breath away? Take some time today and "behold the beauty" of our God. May my God today simply take your breath away!!!!


Not Ashamed....Bill